Tyler v. Sites
Supreme Court of Virginia
Error to judgment of circuit court of Rockingham county, rendered April 6, 1893, in an action of trespass on the ease wherein V. H. Lam, sheriff of Rockingham county, and as such administrator of Thomas H. Sites, deceased, was plaintiff, and S. E. Tyler, receiver of the Shenandoah Valley Railroad Company, was defendant. There having been a verdict and judgment for the plaintiff for $1,500, the defendant obtained a writ of error. Opinion states the case.
1Opinion of the Court
Lewis, P.,
delivered the opinion of the court.
*540This is the sequel to Tyler, receiver, v. Sites’ Adm’r, 88 Va., 470. Tlie action was brought to recover damages for the alleged negligeut killing of the plaintiff’s intestate, a deaf mate, while walking on the ends of the cross-ties on the defendant’s tracks. The facts, as they were then presented by the record, were fully set forth in the opinion of the court, delivered by Judge Richardson, on the former appeal; and upon those facts it was held that there could be no recovery. The fact, it was said, that the deceased was deaf made it all the more…
2Cases cited4 opinions
- High v. Carolina Central RailroadSupreme Court of North Carolina · 1893
- N. & W. R. R. v. Harman's AdministratorSupreme Court of Virginia · 1887
- Tyler v. Sites' Adm'rSupreme Court of Virginia · 1891
- Cropp v. CroppSupreme Court of Virginia · 1892
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- Richards v. CommonwealthSupreme Court of Virginia · 1908
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- Kabler's Administrator v. Southern Railway Co.Court of Appeals of Virginia · 1917
- Norfolk & Western Railway Co. v. Dean's AdministratrixSupreme Court of Virginia · 1907
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