Chesapeake & Ohio Railway Co. v. Saunders' Administrator
Supreme Court of Virginia
Error to a judgment of the Corporation Court of the city of Staunton in an action of trespass on the case. Judgment for the plaintiff. Defendant assigns error.
1Opinion of the CourtHarrison, J.
This action was brought by the administrator of Roddy Saunders to recover of the defendant company $5,000 damages for its alleged negligent killing of his intestate. The trial resulted in a verdict and judgment in favor of the plaintiff for $1,357.14 which we are asked to review and reverse.
The salient facts of the case are few and very clearly established. On the 16th of February last, in the daytime, the deceased, an active, strong youth eighteen years *828of age, in company with his youngér brother, who was sixteen years old, had been picking up coal along the track' of the defendant east of…
2Cases cited13 opinions
- Southern Railway Co. v. BaileySupreme Court of Virginia · 1910
- Chesapeake & Ohio Railway Co. v. Rodgers' AdministratrixSupreme Court of Virginia · 1902
- Richmond Railway & Electric Co. v. BrownSupreme Court of Virginia · 1899
- Norfolk & Western Railway Co. v. MannSupreme Court of Virginia · 1901
- Atlantic Coast Line Railroad v. Caple's AdmimistratrixSupreme Court of Virginia · 1910
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3Cited by16 opinions
- West v. CommonwealthSupreme Court of Virginia · 1919
- Gunter's Adm'r v. Southern Railway Co.Supreme Court of Virginia · 1920
- Hawkins v. BeechamSupreme Court of Virginia · 1937
- Craft v. Fordson Coal Co.West Virginia Supreme Court · 1933
- Grant v. MaysSupreme Court of Virginia · 1963
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