Williamson & Pond Creek Railroad v. Charles' Administrator

Opinion op the Coubt by

Judge Tubner

— Affirming.

Appellee’s intestate, Vernon Charles, a young man nineteen years of age, was, in February, 1913, while walking along the track, of appellant’s railroad in Pike county, run over and killed by a mixed passenger and freight train operated by appellant, and his administrator instituted this suit for damages.

' Appellant’s road was a new one at the time — not in fact completed — and ran from Williamson, West Virginia, about twelve or thirteen miles to a point called McVeigh in Pike county, Kentucky. The train left Williamson early that morning and went…