Jammison v. Chesapeake & Ohio Railway Co.
Supreme Court of Virginia
Error to a judgment of the Circuit Court of the city of Williamsburg and the county of James City, rendered May 12, 1892, in an action of trespass on the case, wherein Elizabeth Jammison, an infant, who sned by her next friend, was the nlaintiff. and the defendant in error was the defendant.
1Opinion of the Court
Keith, P.,
delivered the opinion of the court.
On the 1st day of December, 1890, the appellant purchased a ticket over the Chesapeake and Ohio railway from Newport News to Ewell’s station. The train passed Ewell’s station without stopping so as to enable the appellant to get off. It slowed up, however, to enable a witness for the appellant, one E. M. Canady, to alight safely, though not without some risk of injury. When it became evident that the train would not stop at Ewell’s station, appellant, after conferring with a fellow passenger, passed out of the front end of the coach in which she…
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