PETTRY v. CHESAPEAKE AND OHIO RAILWAY COMPANY

No. 12206.

135 S.E.2d 729 (1964)

Fred PETTRY, Administrator of the Estate of Sandra Kay Pettry v. The CHESAPEAKE AND OHIO RAILWAY COMPANY, a Corporation.

Supreme Court of Appeals of West Virginia.

Decided on Rehearing March 31, 1964.


Attorney(s) appearing for the Case

Huddleston & Bolen, Amos A. Bolen, Edwin W. Conley, Huntington, for appellant.

W. Hayes Pettry, Charleston, Rudolph L. Di Trapano, Cabin Creek, for appellee.


BERRY, Judge.

This case involves a civil action instituted in the Common Pleas Court of Kanawha County by Fred Pettry, Administrator for the Estate of Sandra Kay Pettry, deceased, against the Chesapeake and Ohio Railway Company, a corporation. The plaintiff's decedent, a nineteen months old child was struck and killed by one of the defendant's freight trains near Coalburg, Kanawha County, West Virginia on September 1, 1960.

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