Murray v. Southern Railway Co.

Opinion of the Court by

Judge Hobson

Affirming.

George Murray on October 7,1908, was walking along the Southern Railway track from Fonde, Kentucky to Pruden, Tennessee. A section crew of the railway company shortly afterwards started down the railway toward Pruden. They had what is' called a push car, which is a truck six or eight feet long with four wheels, that run on a railway track. The truck was loaded with old ties and rails. Four or five of the section men were in charge of the push ear and the remainder of the section crew were on the hand car some forty or fifty feet behind it. When…