Chesapeak Ohio Railway Company v. Thompson

Opinion of the Court by

Judge Clay

Reversing in Chesapeake & Ohio Railway Company v. Oma Thompson, and denying the appeal in Chesapeake & Ohio Railway Company v. Curtis Thompson, by, etc.

These are companion cases and will be considered in one opinion. The first is an appeal from a judgment of $1,000.00 in favor of Oma Thompson, and the second is a motion for an appeal from a judgment of $300.00 in favor of Curtis Thompson.

The facts are these: In the month of September, 1922, Mrs. Thompson and her five children boarded the Chesapeake & Ohio train at Pikeville for the purpose of going to Offutt,…