Newport News & Old Point Railway & Electric Co. v. Hampton Roads Railway & Electric Co.
Supreme Court of Virginia
Appeals from decrees of the Circuit Court of the county of Elizabeth City in two suits in chancery, in one of which the appellant was the complainant, and the appellee was the defendant, and in the other the appellee was the complainant, and the appellant was the defendant.
1Opinion of the Court
Cardwell, T.,
delivered the opinion of the court.
In October, 1898, the Hewport Hews, Hampton & Old Point Railway Company was the owner of an electric street railway *797between the city of Newport News and the Federal reservation at Old Point, which passes through the said city, portions of the counties of Warwick and Elizabeth City, and of the town of Hampton. Its system consisted of a single track, with occasional turn-outs and switches, and a branch line extending from the main line, a distance of about two and one-half miles, to Buckroe Beach, a summer resort. In the month of October, 1898,…
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