Chesapeake & O. Ry. Co. v. Bryant's Adm'r

Opinion of the Court by

Judge Stites

Reversing.

The appellant, Chesapeake &' Ohio Railway Company, operates a line between Louisville and Ashland, Ky. It passes through Carter county, and at the point involved in the accident which gives rise to this action the line of the railroad runs in an eastwardly direction toward the town of Soldier from a point where it comes out of Triplett Tunnel. Between the tunnel and Soldier there is a grade crossing where the county road coming out of the south passes over the railroad right of way toward the Midland Trail, which lies north of the track. The track…