Southern Railway Co. v. Boy

In this appeal, as in that of the companion case, Southern Railway v. Darnell, 221 Va. 1026, 211 S.E.2d 175 (1981), this day decided, it is necessary that we construe Code § 56-16.1 The dispositive question in the present case is whether a landowner whose land lies on only one side of a railroad right-of-way is entitled under the statute to require the railroad company to repair a bridge which it constructed as part of a wagonway across such right-of-way.

Hugh L. Boy, Jr., and Madge Boy, his wife, filed a petition in the trial court against Southern Railway Company and Virginia and…