Louisville & Nashville Railroad v. Offutt

Opinion of the Court by

Sandidge, Commissioner—

Affirming.

Appellee, Manly Hugh. Offutt, suing by Ms next friend, A. M. Offutt, recovered a judgment for $500.00 against the appellants, W. H. Barker and Louisville & Nashville Railroad Company, in the Whitley circuit court, in an action for false arrest and imprisonment, and this appeal is prosecuted from that judgment.

It appears that the appellee, twelve years of age, a newsboy, living in Corbin, Kentucky, on March 18, 1921, about three o’clock in the afternoon, was at the passenger depot of the Louisville & Nashville Railroad Company and boarded…