Norfolk & Western Railway Co. v. Spates
Supreme Court of Virginia
Error to a judgment of the Circuit Court of Clarke county, in an action of trespass on the case. Judgment for plain - ■ tiff. Defendant assigns error.
1Opinion of the Court
Sims, J.,
after making the foregoing statement delivered the following opinion of the court:
We will consider and pass upon the questions raised by the several assignments of error in their order as stated below:
1. Was it error to admit evidence for the plaintiff that other engines of the railroad company at other times in the past had thrown out sparks and cinders and in some cases had set out fires at and near the locality of the buildings of the plaintiff, for damages for the burning of- which this action was brought?
Before the Featherston act the law required a plaintiff, in order to…
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