CLAY, Commissioner.
Walter Jenkins, an employee, died as a result of injuries suffered while working on a cut of freight cars in appellant's railroad yard. The jury awarded appellee, his administrator, $25,000 damages. The significant question on this appeal is whether or not the railroad company was entitled to a directed verdict.
Appellant operates a large switching yard in Campbell County. In making up trains it carries on an operation known as "humping...
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