Louisville & Nashville Railroad v. Moore

Opinion of the Court by

Judge Carroll

Affirming.

Tlie appellee, a carpenter, was engaged as a car repairer by tbe appellant company, and while engaged in repairing a car was struck and seriously and permanently injured by a plank that fell from the top of the car. To *709recover damages for the injury thus sustained, he brought this suit, and on a trial before a jury there was a verdict and judgment in his favor for $12,500.

At the time of his injury Moore was about twenty-eight years old and a strong, vigorous young man. He was a carpenter by trade and had been working for the railroad company as a…