Louisville & Nashville Railroad v. Spivey

Opinion of the Court by

Turner, Commissioner

Reversing.

Appellee was a resident of a mining town in Harlan county. The town seems to have been on two sides of the Cumberland river, and appellee, together with others, in going to and from their work on the opposite side of the river, used as a walkway a railroad bridge which appellant company owned and operated across the river at that point.

While using the bridg’e one morning in February, 1922, in crossing the river to his -work, he met a train coming from the other side, which train struck and injured him and for which injuries he brought this…