Barker v. Louisville N. R. Co.

Opinion of the Court by

Judge Tilford

Affirming.

About six o ’clock in the morning of Monday, March 27, 1939, remnants of the body of Roy Barker were found strewn along appellee’s railroad right of way at varying distances north of Bryant’s crossing approximately one mile north of Lily, an unincorporated village in Laurel County. Some small particles of flesh were found under a wooden guide rail, and blood stains were seen on other portions of the crossing, which, together with the disturbed condition of the gravel south of it, indicated that the dismemberment may have occurred south of the…