C. N. O. & T. P. R. R. v. Holland

delivered tbe opinion of tbe Court. .

*258This is an action to recover damages for the alleged wrongful killing of Dock Holland, colored, the husband of the plaintiff, Fannie Holland. There was a verdict and judgment for $1,000 in favor of the plaintiff, and the defendant has appealed.

Dock Holland was killed while riding upon and operating a railway velocipede on the main track of the defendant’s road between Boyce station and Chattanooga. He was an employee of the road, and his duties were to attend to the switch and signal lights and to switch the mail from the defendant’s mail train to those of…