As the railroading industry grew, so did lawsuits against them. There is found in "The Southwestern Reporter, Volume 146, May 22 - June 12, 1912, a lengthy case involving one Joseph AGE of Hart Co. The decision reached by the Hart Co Circuit Court was appealed to the Kentucky Court of Appeals. Abstracting from the case at the Court of Appeals: S. M. PAYTON of Munfordville spoke for the appellant; Benjamin D WARFIELD of Louisville; SIMS & RODES of Bowling Green and WATKINS & CARDEN of Munfordville represented the appellees. Joseph AGE was an employee of the L&N as section foreman at Glasgow Junction. On the afternoon of 8 Oct 1910, he was run over by one of the cars of the L&N and so seriously injured that he died the following morning. His death as charged to the negligence of the L&N in the operation of its train. Age's administrator sued to recover to recover damages. L&N denied liability and pleaded contributory negligence. The case had gone to trial and when the evidence had been presented, the court instructed the jury to find for the defendant which was done. What happened. On the afternoon of that fateful day, a south-bound local freight train, No. 31, arrived at Glasgow Junction (Park City) about 4:30 and for about 10-15 minutes after its arrival it was engaged in switching around and through the yards to unload freight. It took on some empties that were there and left off some cars that were to remain there. In order to do this, the caboose and two freight cars were left standing on the mains tract almost opposite the freight depot. It was noted that the passenger depot was south of there. At this time there was what was known as the "house track" where four cars were standing. After the caboose and two cars had been cut loose from the train, the conducted went into the caboose to make out his report. The engineer, fireman, two brakeman and a flagman were left in charge of the rest of the train. There were between 24-25 cars. One of the brakemen walked down the track to the south and after the train had passed beyond him, he threw the switch so as to let it in on the house track. After throwing the switch he passed over to the other side of the track and stood there for the purpose of transmitting to the engineer the signals from the rear brakeman who was between him and the freight depot. The flagman was near the freight depot for the purpose of seeing that the four cars that were standing on the track were coupled when the train backed into them. When he was ready, he signaled the brakeman next to him to back up. This signal was transmitted by the rear brakeman to the head brakeman who had thrown the switch. Then the engineer was signaled and the train was immediately backed up at about 2-4 miles per hour. It backed down on the house track and against the four cars that were standing there. Immediately following the impact, the flagman heard some one halloo. He looked and saw Age down in between two of these cars. He immediately gave the stop signal and it was passed on as rapidly as could be by the other employees back to the engineer. The engineer at once stopped the train but not before it had gone about 2 car lengths and dragged Age along the ground and run the wheels over him. He was so seriously injured as to cause his death. To be continued next week. Sandi To post to lists: [email protected] or [email protected] Sandi's Puzzlers: http://www.gensoup.org/gorinpuzzles/index.php Sandi's Website: http://ggpublishing.tripod.com/