Norfolk & Western Railroad v. Brown
Supreme Court of Virginia
Error to a judgment of the Circuit Court of the city of Roanoke, rendered September 15, 1894, in an action of trespass on the case wherein the defendant in error was the plaintiff, and the plaintiff in error was the defendant.
1Opinion of the CourtBuchanan, J.
This is a writ of error to a judgment of the Circuit Court of the city of Roanoke, in favor of Hugh Brown against the Norfolk and Western Railroad Company for the sum of $10,000.
It appears from the .record that the plaintiff, who was about nineteen years of age, was employed by the defendant company on the 15th of September, 1891, as a brakeman on the yards of the defendant company at Roanoke city. The crew of hands with which he was worming was engaged chiefly in coupling and uncoupling cars, and in shifting them for the purpose of making up trains. On the 15th of October, one month after he…
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