Louisville N. R. Co. v. Vaughn

Opinion op the Court by

Stanley, Commissioner

Affirming.

Tbe judgment is for $5,500 for personal injuries sustained by a nine year old boy, Jeff Henry Vaughn, while playing on a railroad turntable in Greensburg, on February 26, 1940.

Tbe boy and five companions, from 10 to 13 years old, left off playing “fox and bounds” at a nearby lumber yard and went to tbe turntable, as they bad done several times before. It was not locked. Tbe boys easily removed an iron bar or draw bolt shaped like tbe letter “I” which was put between tbe ends of tbe fixed rails on tbe roadbed and tbe ends of tbe rails on…