Meade v. Ashland Steel Co.
Court of Appeals of Kentucky
CASE 16. — ACTION BY W. R. MEADE AS ADM’R OF CHARLES ANDERSON AGAINST THE ASHLAND STEEL CO., FOR DA.MAGES FOR CAUSING THE DEATH OF PLAINTIFF’S INTESTATE. Appeal from Boyd Circuit Court. S, 0. Kinner, Circuit Judge. Judgment for defendant. • Plaintiff appeals. STATEMENT. 1. The appellants intestate, Charles Anderson, was injured by having his leg caught in some cogs in a revolving shaft from which he died immediately thereafter.
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CASE 16. — ACTION BY W. R. MEADE AS ADM’R OF CHARLES ANDERSON AGAINST THE ASHLAND STEEL CO., FOR DA.MAGES FOR CAUSING THE DEATH OF PLAINTIFF’S INTESTATE. Appeal from Boyd Circuit Court. S, 0. Kinner, Circuit Judge. Judgment for defendant. • Plaintiff appeals. STATEMENT. 1. The appellants intestate, Charles Anderson, was injured by having his leg caught in some cogs in a revolving shaft from which he died immediately thereafter. He was employed at the time in the appellee’s rolling mill, a large establishment consisting of many different departments and employing several hundred hands. At the…
1Opinion of the Court
*119Opinion op the Court by
Judge Hobson
Reversing.
Charles Anderson lost his life on October 7, 1901, while in the employ of the Ashland Steel Company. This suit was filed by his administrator to recover for his death. At the conclusion of the evidence for the plaintiff the court peremptorily instructed the jury to find for the defendant, and, his petition having been dismissed, the plaintiff appeals.
Although the deceased had been in the employment of the steel company for a number of years, he had not worked at the place where he was killed until the night he was killed. He went to work there…
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