Davis v. Briggs

Opinion of the Court by

Turner, Commissioner

Reversing.

On the 7th of June, 1918, while the Director General of Railroads was operating* the Louisville & Nashville Railroad, appellee, a fireman on one of the engines, while putting water into the tank of his engine at Maloney, Ky., *785lost Iris balance and fell from’ the tender of the engine to the ground, a distance of about nine feet, whereby he was severely injured.

In this suit for'damages therefor, on the trial a verdict for $15,000.00 in his favor was returned by the jury upon which judgment was entered; a motion for a new trial having been…