Cummings' Administratrix v. Paducah Grain & Elevator Co.

Opinion of the Court by

Judge Sampson

Affirming.

While engaged at his duties as agent and collector for an insurance company J. H. Cumming’s visited the office and plant of the Paducah Grain and Elevator Company in the city of Paducah, in December, 1918, and while there attempted to pass through an elevator shaft and was struck by the elevator car and crushed to death. His wife as administratrix instituted this action in the McCracken circuit court against the grain elevator company to recover for his death. At the conclusion of the evidence for the plaintiff the court instructed the jury to…