198 Ky. 502 | Ky. Ct. App. | 1923
Opinion of the Court by
Reversing.
This is an appeal from a judgment for $6,000.00 in favor of W. M. Eversole’s administratrix.
The only question we deem it necessary to consider is whether appellant’s motion for a peremptory instruction should have been sustained.
Eversole owned a store at TIazelpatch in Laurel county. Opposite the store is the station. Hazelpatch is a small settlement and only .eight or ten families live there. Fifty-one feet south of the store is a public crossing. . About 1,250 feet north of the store is a small spring on the railroad right of way. On the evening of .September 2, 1920, Eversole was. struck and killed by one of appellant’s freight trains. The accident occurred at a
Judgment reversed and cause remanded for proceedings consistent with this opinion.