Louisville & Nashville Railroad v. Weldon

'Opinion op the Court by

Judge Hannah

Reversing.

The Diamond Coal Company operates a coal mine in Webster County on the line of the Louisville & Nashville Railroad Company. The tracks of the coal company were so arranged that empty cars were placed on the upper end of a switch which was constructed on a downgrade through the tipple and down to the scales where the cars were weighed. The empty cars, as 'needed, were dropped or let down by gravity to the tipple, where they *655were loaded, and'" then let down to the scales/-'the-movement of the car being controlled by the1* hand-brakes thereon. - - '…