Cincinnati, New Orleans & Texas Pacific Railway Co v. Carter

Opinion op the Court by

Judge Miller

Reversing.

The appellant operates a railroad from Cincinnati, Ohio, to Chattanooga, Tennessee, passing through Jessamine county, Kentucky. It maintains an electric block signal system for the protection of its trains. This block system is divided into districts or sections, each section being under the control of a maintainer or signal inspector, who personally looks after the maintenance of the blocks, making repairs and seeing that they are kept in working order.

What' is known as the Nicholasville section extends ;.from. a.point north of Brannon near…