COOPER v. LOUISVILLE & NASHVILLE RAILROAD COMPANY


321 S.W.2d 53 (1959)

Ray R. COOPER, Administrator of the Estate of William Charles Cooper, Deceased, Appellant, v. LOUISVILLE & NASHVILLE RAILROAD COMPANY, Appellee.

Court of Appeals of Kentucky.

February 13, 1959.


Attorney(s) appearing for the Case

C. B. Upton, Williamsburg, Carlos B. Pope, Barbourville, for appellant.

C. S. Landrum, Sr., C. S. Landrum, Jr., Lexington, H. M. Tye, Lowell W. Lundy, Barbourville, H. G. Breetz, James M. Terry, Louisville, for appellee.


STEWART, Judge.

The case arose out of the fatal injury of a fifteen-year-old boy in the small village of Himyar in Knox County. In an action filed by the personal representative against the Louisville & Nashville Railroad Company (herein called the L. & N.) to recover $106,000 based upon the death of the boy, the lower court, at the conclusion of plaintiff's evidence, peremptorily directed the jury to return a verdict for L. & N. This appeal is from a...

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