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Lexington & Eastern Railway Company, _ Appellant.

V. 7 BRIE}? .3037: .‘..'??? '1 Lisl'ii’l‘. .
H. 0. Beatright, Appellee.

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We desire briefly to reply to the Brief filed in
behalf of the A pellee, confining what We have fie say to
Agpellee‘s summary of the facts anfl to his eifiations of law.

THE FACT .

COUHSQI ior legallee seem to treat the @roof as
shaving guifie canelueivelg an& as a matter of course that . -
plaintilfi‘s nrowexty Sufferefi serioue éamage and that this ‘
éamage, 3% a fair cum utmfiion, amountud to at least TWO
nnnfired Dollars (5200.00) , the amount awsezsed by the ' "
1H :93" .

A fair and candid exuminutimn of the transcrijt
of the eviéence, however, will indubitmbly establish the faefi : '
fihat fihe Verfiict was erceenive. The plaintiff's proyerty,
acaorfifiug $0 his own claim, containeé a bare fraction over ten
acres (frunscriet of EViGGflCQ, p.ll,) mnfi treating hie own
appraieement of the value of thie treefi 8S GOMpetent, its
m Kimum value fiifi not exceed One Thjusanfi Dollars ($1000.00), ‘
ygijo the lurgn preponderance of the teetimony, both connetent
in” incanyetent, put the maximum value at not exceeding Eight

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' 3:11.316. 3‘. ft}; to ls‘ive 33.111143 rec": ems} fifty 3011:3353 was: mafia up of 1:310
“33:23.15? 3.1133 33.316. iLL;:1"{33721313333333 on the 151163., 310310 0 1311:1031}. were 133133533 1:361
:33:: 1313123151. in any 3753;; 33y the alleged overflow from "(file river.
{2210 or more Of “the 333113310143903 mama}. 31:3 fl. 3133.32.33 "65.236 0111;)“ watsh
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3.3::-31:1..Ioen tha aflge 031‘ the river sand ‘the 6012:5113 g; 310ml, 'L'-1h :'.-338.538 the
“lfl 3.08:3 Gi‘ 31312.33. 3'L'tii‘f '5: 93161053:sz 1552,3361: 1:11;: on the 01'3le 3316.0
3 033’ this; 6:.3313L-ty' .»’..ung 53,316. 3.1321519 or 11mm 03? it V..-2:38 flaws: "to any
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be 3.31.131336'3LLG, thaw 031335.36: Value (1:113. 3th :3:-:90le Line iiunglterfi 3301153132:
(“$100.00) p372;- :’L.L":1‘e. I31 933/0119? {353.550, the 13.336. :‘L:’1§:L1‘<.=€~. Was.)
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n tides :'er 32163 Kort}: ;30113: 1ch3: during; the years 7.93.2 1111611913
331.1115; 11.0430111112 1011 the (712-1231.rig:c, ii" any, 30 11321:;- 31531111311361":1" lama,
12.221113211131113 any :‘:—31.31111; to 01113531110 01: more ELCVGIL’Gi‘tiOUS cireurmtonces.

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These heavy and protracted rains and the Conseqnont high water
in the river are an obvious and all~sufiicient explanation of
the trouble here complained of.
TH? SAT.

In su port of their argument for the Appellee, counsel
for Annelise refer to but three decisions, two rendered by the
Court of ;ppeale of Kentucky and one by the Supreme Court of
Illinois. we have eramined the case of Ohio a mississinpi
Hy. Co. v. Ramey, 139 Ill. p. 9; s.c. 2? $.3. lop. 1087, and
while it seems to decide the point to which it is cited by
counsel ior Annelise, yet we do not find that it differs in any
material respect iron cases like hadisonvillc, 5 a T E Co. v.
Thomas, 140 Ky. 143; s.c. 130 ?.M. Q75, heretofore decided in
Kentucky.

The case of Ill. Cont. L; v. idem, 76 3.2;. 35:2,
decifiod by this Court in 19mg, involved damage to the plain-
tiff Ben‘s land by reason oi the construction of a railroad
embankment out into the Ohio hivwr. This Embankment or pier:
was built in order to accommodate a ferry by means of which
the railroad crosses the Ohio River about a mile and a quarter I
above the lands of Bom, the Annellee. We confess there is some
tort oannalogy between the Ben case and the nrescnt case, but

' the facts and physical conditions are so manifestly different i
that the decision of this case cannot fairly he made to depend
upon the determination of the 30m case. In other words, the I
Bom case turned on its own peculiar facts and did not involve ‘
the announcement of any new rule or principle for tho determina- ‘
tion of claims such as this.

There is another point inVulvod in the Bom case
Which might Well be applied differently here. Said the Court -

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”She rule that has been laid down in SeVeral cages that,thcre
the ylaintiff’g nvifienue leaves the mind in Count afi to whcfiher
his injuzy was flue to the fiefenéanfi’w act 01 to some othvr cause,
fihore can bc no rocuvery, cannofi be appliea where thifl Foubt
$rises upon fihl preof énfiroducad by thr fiefenfianfi."
flow, in the cane at bury it 18 insiafiefi thmi th: Baubfi
RS ta whwther fihw injuxy aouplainafi of was fine fio any negligence
of fihe Gefefléaufi axisefi wholly Out of éhe 3300f oifnrafi in behalf
of fihw plaintiff. The wroof a dnca& by the fiefonfiant did mat rc-
move Shah fioubfi nor aid it in any fiegrve Strcugthon the plain»
fiiif’g Gaga. fiance, the same r asaur which 19& fihe “Qurt in the
Ben G383 fio reinsa to amply this principle Goénofi exifit hare aad
for thiS reason we ifimist %hufi fihe court below eyrafi in flat tak-
ing; “the cams; from “8116: 313:3“
The Dfihwr ease oitefl by the hypellae, viz: 301293 V.
C. E. U. & E. Po 3y.00., 132 $3. 52‘; 9.0. 153 S. I. 742, was a
' perSogml injury aaae which rnGOgnizes and ap5119: cerfiain prin~
Ci 103 in the law of nailigonue resnncting which we nfikQ no Sig»
% nutw. She Beimwr ease mayeover sites and rangfirms ofihex ear—
E 1102 Kentucky cases, more vanccinlly fih. 0390 Cf Intgon v. $0 In
E & K. r ,"‘ fl
& 3.060., 137 Ky. 01?; 3.0. 120 :.:. 14b. Eatv oath of fih9se ‘
‘ Gav s rnuognize the vlomnntwry finafirine contenfied for in our
01':?._5;:i.11:21 grief 52115;. again urged hare, viz: - ”Elm-aft a whim:~':'.i.1-21:iz,to
Gauge i8 that Ounce Mlieh naturally 10d to uni uhich miphfi have
been eynnefiod to aroduce the insult. * * * The connectian
oi Gamay anf eff at must be established."
The antire argwmvnfi ior thw Ampellee leaveS thy cage
hhnre we startqd insofar as the foctrine 0f pyoximate cauro is
con érnafl and insofnx as the effecfi of that fiacfirine upon fine
The chief error or fallacy under-
pr¢sent case is concernaa.
lying the argument for Appollee here seems to be that in every
case wh re the quostion of proximate cause becomes iMportant,

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that question must be left to the jury for determination and
cannot be taken from the jury by the Court; That such is not the
law would seem to be settled by the authorities cited in our
original brief but,if it may serve to remove the point from the
realm of ueubt,we mey be pardoned for supplementing the eu-
( I thorities reliea upon in our original brief with additional
citations.
Thus, in the case of Hummor's Executrix v. L & H E R Co. '
128 Ky. l86; 3.0. 108 S.W. 885, where the case was submitted
to the jury and a verflict returned for the defendant, the Court
announced in clear and unmistakable terms the prineitle which
we insist shoulo be applied here. Seifi Jufige Hobson, writing for
the Court -
"In oroer for the plaintiff to recover he must not
only show that there was negligence on the part of the
Gefendant, but also that the injury oceurree as the
proximate result of such negligence; for he cannot
comelein of negligence on the pert of the defendant
which in no way effected the injury com leined of."
/ Again, in the later case of Goins v. Horth Jellico
wk"
Coal 00., 140 Ky. 323; 3.0. 131 S.W. 29, where a verdict was
returnefi for the eefendent unfler e peremptory instruction given by
the Court, the Court of 3*peels again declarefi the nrincinle
here under consiieration in the following terse language «
"Damages can be reeOVereu for negligence or
wrongful not only there the loss suifered was the
proximate result of the negligence or wrongful net.”
It is to he obeerved that the Goins case also lays
down the rule ior determining defendant's motion for e peremp-
tory instruction, pointing out that no matter when the motion
is decided, if it be mafia at the close of the plaintiff‘s tee—
timony, it must always be decided upon the plaintiff's testimony
alone and without reference to evidence oifered in behalf of the
defendant. The language of the Court on this point is as follows -

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/ .

/ "At the conclusion of the evidence offered by him,

’ the defendant moved the court to instruct the jury peremptorily
to find for it. The court took the motion under advisement,
and directed the defendant to go on with its evidence. At the

j conclusion of the defendant's evidence, the court sueteined
’ the motion, and the jury having found for the defendant, and
5 the plaintiff'e petition being dismissed, he appeals. ‘
"When the plaintiff introduces his evidence,
- and at its conclusion the defendant moves the court to
instruct the jury pcremptorily to find for it, Whether
' the motion is then determined by the court or not, it must
be decided on the plaintiff's evidence without reference
to any facts Shown by the evidence introduced on behalf
oi the defendant; for, in so far as there is e conflict
, in the evidence, the question, if material, is fei'the jury.
The ceec before us therefore must be determined on.the
. plaintiff's evidence without reference to any fact Shown
by the teetimony for the defendant."
‘»v Again, in the once of Tolin v. Terrell, 133 Ky. 210;
s.c. 117 S.?. 290, the Court of Appeals once more recorded its
eoproval of the principle here in question, Saving 4
, 5 "In order to hold defendant liuble in this case,
' ,5" ; his negligence muet have been such that, without it,
,‘ =5fi >E; the injury would not hate happened. while it is true
, flglg?i 5 that the question of proximate cause is ordinarily one for the
g,‘;ge W" { jury, yet, where the evidence connecting the plaintiff's
y y” injuries with the defendant's alleged negligence amounts to
' more Speculation or conjecture, no case for the jury in pre-
eented.W
The case of Burton v. Cumberland Telephone & Telegraph
Company, 118 S.W. 287, illuetr toe the grinoiplc here in question.
we quote from the Opinion in thie cute as follows ~
"The absence of the permission of the fiscal court
the not, then, the prOximute ceuee of appellant’s injuries.
If the pole fell because of defects of which appellee
know, or could have discovered by ordinary care, then it
would have been liable to appellant for the injuries re~
ceived, but, as said before, this issue he failed to maintain
before the jury. If, hoWever, the pole fell, not because
it Was unsound, but bocuuee it was broken down by the felling
of a tree, or blown down by an unusual storm - neither
of which was in the control of apnollee - than the reopen-
eibility for eponllant'e injuries Was not upon eppolleo. The
more feet that the pole was at the place there it was
situated, and e felling tree broke it off an? cuueed it to
fall in the highway, does not render the appellee liable for
unpellant’s injuries. The Windstorm anC the falling tree
were the proximate causes of the injuries accruing to the
appellant.
V ”The rule we have announced above is well stated in 29
Cyc. 496, as follows: ‘A prior and remote ounce cannot be made
the basis of an action if such remote cauee did nothing more
then furnish the condition or give rise to the occasion by

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which the injury was muoe possible if there intervened
between such prior or remote cause chi the injury a
distinct, succescivc, unrelated, and efficient amuse of the
injury. If no danger existeo in the conflition except be-
cause of the independent cause, such condition was not the
proximate cause.‘ Tho foregoing text is supported by a citation
of many authorities in a note by the ecitors. Assuming the pole
in question to have been such as is ordinarily uScd by telephone
congenies, one that it was reasonably safe as it stooc, we are
unable to perceive Why uppellee should be held liable because
the Windstorm blow down a forest tree near it, which, in
falling, broke the pole and threw it into the highway. The
proximate cause was the vis major, and not the negligence
of appoll so. "
In the still later case of City of Lawrencehurg V. Lay, ,.
149 Ky. 490; s.c. 149 E.H. 862, the Court discussed but die not occide
the specific matter of eviflence which arose in that case one invited
an application of the doctrines of proximate cause. What the Court
had to say, however, is instructive on the facts here unfier consid—
eration. We quote from the Opinion as follows ~
"There is much force in the argument of counsel for
appellant that the set of the city in maintaining the rope was not
. the proximate cause of the injury, as the rope did not in any
manner obstruct the use of the street or Sidewalk in the cus-
tomary manner oi their use, although, if an attempt had been
made to go from the street to the siocwalk, or from the siaewulk
to the street, at the place uh re th" rcpe was suspcnaca, it
moul&.oiier in some measure an obstruction. Qhe rule is
that to conztitute negligence in cases like this, Where con—
curring, infiependent causes produce accident, the injury com—
plained of must be one that, under the circumstances, might
- have been reasonably foreseen or anticipated by a person of -
oréinsry prudence to flow from m: be the natural or'probable
consequence of the first negligent act. Sydnor v. Arnold,
122 Ky. 557, 92 S.W. 289; Louisville home Telephone Co. v. Gas-
por, 123 gy‘ 128, 93 S.W. 1057, 29 Ky. Lew Rep. 578, 9 L.R.i.
1U.So& QA ind so it is orwued that as the tone was so
6 .. W ” “ _.. .. .0 L) L r... ’ . y ‘ a v. u
31490 an AOL to obstruct the customary travel, the city,
‘ in the exercise of reasonable pruflonce, coulo not have antic-
' ioutofi that anything woulfi come in contact with this rope
in so Violent a manner as to cause it to become unfastened
or break, and hence shoulc not be held liable for the not
of the runaway horse that cousod the fope to break or become
unfastenod.”
Comes might be multiplied to the some purport, but
when it is considered that under the proof here it is by no means
clear that the ylointiff's damage was attributable to the con-
struction of the railroad or railroad fill but, on the contrary,

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appears to have originate& from other anfl distinct causes; aha
when we consider in particular that the tides in the North
Fork of the Kentucky River passing plaintiff‘s property were ex-
traordinary an& unusual aha exoeesively high, hath in the year
. 1912 ant in the year 1913; and When it is further remembered
. that the pleintiif himself by placing brush aha other ohetrue-
tions in the bed of the river, or near the bank on the Sifie
afijacent to his nronertp, thereby directly interfered with
the flow of thv water, impeding anfl diVGrting the natural ‘
current, it 18 plainly just as probable that the injury, if
any, to his land was due to his own acts as to any acts of the
railroafl cou»any in the Genetinetion of its fill.

Upon ooneiioration of all of which it is confiflently
fiibmittmd that th? verfliet anfi judgment appealed from Should be
reversefi an& a new trial granted.

Hoepeetfnlly subuntted,
Woetton & Bergen,
B. 7.'. Harfi @151...
C. h. Moorman, of Couneol.

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court unfi announced L0 Lac geurt that {key cvuld

net agree, when it Wufi ahaL uno or were or the .

jurors 531% to the Court LhuL thvy did not unfleru

Stand frum the instructions as to uhcth r or nut

the Pjuiutiff could sue Lhu defendant Lhcrouftcr

For damages in Lhis came. thereupon the Court

said LO Lhc jury that the cuurt hud in tructcd

then: as to thc: 11JY 01’ th¢* c;use, :1n11 L¥th {1193‘ hail ,

been upon the grounds Lhcnmclves, and viewed the

prewises; but in answer to {hair question about

suj1uf Lhetwulftex~ the iJaxu“L Gigi 5d§r L0 the jury

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that the Court was. 01‘ the opinion that :hc plain-

tiff could not maintain another action for damages

to this tract of land. in other nerds, the Court

said then that he believed under Lhe law that this

would be an end to all matters pertuinina to this

particular case, if any denune had been sustained.

The Clerk of thin court is ordered to enter this

order no that the facts that Sid occur will appear

in the record."
in the giving of the Verbal inetruotionn or explanations
herein shown to hevv neon given by the Court the defendant
at the time excepted and still excepts. lhe fair inform
once from this incident is theL the jury were unable to
discover any actual injury or damage to plaintiff's lands
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