Chesapeake & Ohio Railway Co. v. Mosby
Supreme Court of Virginia
Appeal from a decree of the Chancery Court of the city of Richmond, pronounced May 8,1894, in a suit in chancery, wherein the appellee was the complainant, and the appellant was the defendant.
1Opinion of the CourtHarrison, J.
*94Pending his action for damages, the plaintiff, who was conductor of a freight train on the Chesapeake & Ohio Railway, and while thus engaged was seriously injured in a collision, has instituted this suit in chancery to set aside a release of all claim for damages suffered by him in that accident, on the ground that, at the time of executing said release, he was mentally incompetent, and that the defendant company took advantage of his incapacity to procure the release. The case was heard by the chancellor without the intervention of a jury, upon depositions only; and the petition for appeal…
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