Wimsatt's Administratrix v. Louisville & Nashville Railroad

Opinion op the Court by

Judge Logan

Reversing.

Appellant instituted suit against the Louisville & Nashville Railroad Company, John Whitsell, its engineer, and Moreland Burns, its fireman, in charge of its train at the time of the accident, alleging that the corporation and the individuals mentioned, through their joint and concurring negligence and carelessness in the man agement, operation, and control of the engine and train described in the petition ran upon and over Ray Wimsatt, so injuring him that he was then and there killed as the direct and proximate result of the alleged negligence.

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