ILLINOIS CENTRAL RAILROAD COMPANY v. SWIFT

No. 12639.

233 F.2d 766 (1956)

ILLINOIS CENTRAL RAILROAD COMPANY, Appellant, v. Prudie SWIFT, Adm'x of the Estate of Hayward Swift, Deceased, Appellee.

United States Court of Appeals Sixth Circuit.

June 1, 1956.


Attorney(s) appearing for the Case

Thomas E. Sandidge, Owensboro, Ky., J. H. Wright and John W. Freels, Chicago, Ill., Thomas J. Wood, Stites, Wood, Helm & Peabody, Louisville, Ky., on the brief, for appellant.

Rhodes Bratcher, Louisville, Ky., W. D. Bratcher, Greenville, Ky., on the brief, for appellee.

Before SIMONS, Chief Judge, and ALLEN and MARTIN, Circuit Judges.


MARTIN, Circuit Judge.

This action for damages for death by wrongful act brought by decedent's mother, who was qualified administratrix of his estate, was tried to the district judge without the intervention of a jury. Judgment against the appellant railroad company for $45,650 was awarded the appellee.

Appellee's intestate, Hayward Swift, a sixteen-year-old boy, was employed by appellant to work as a member of a section crew. Neither his father nor his mother...

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