Louisville Ry. Co. v. Louisville Fire & Life Pro. Assn.

Opinion of the Court by

Judge Carroll

Reversing.

While a street ear of the appellant company was lawfully standing om Broadway at the intersection of Third *645street in Louisville, Kentucky, it was run into and “hit amidships” — to use the words of Capt. Barney Duffey— by an automobile owned by the appellant, the Louisville Fire & Life Protective Association. At the time of the collision,'the automobile, in charge of Capt. Duffey and occupied by employes of the association, was. on its way to a fire, and was traveling at a rate of speed variously estimated- at from twenty-five to -seventy-five…