Legal Opinion
Norfolk Southern Railway Co. v. Wood
Supreme Court of Virginia
Decided December 6, 1943No. Record No. 2713PublishedCited by 10 opinions
1Opinion of the CourtHudgins, J.
Norfolk Southern Railway Company obtained this writ of error to a judgment on. a verdict for $5,000, returned against it in an action to recover damages for the wrongful death pf Henry Wood, an infant.
*33Assignments of error numbered r, 2 and 3 are based on the contention that the evidence was insufficient to support a verdict for plaintiff.
Norfolk Southern Railway Company, as a part of its railway system, maintains over its own right-of-way a double-track line from Norfolk to Virginia Beach. In the suburbs of the city of Norfolk these double tracks cross a ravine or depression on -a wooden…
2Cases cited6 opinions
- Baltimore & Ohio R. R. v. McKenzieSupreme Court of Virginia · 1885
- Blankenship v. Chesapeake & O. R. Co.Supreme Court of Virginia · 1897
- Hawkins v. BeechamSupreme Court of Virginia · 1937
- Chesapeake & Ohio Railway Co. v. SwartzSupreme Court of Virginia · 1913
- Arminius Chemical Co. v. White's AdministratrixSupreme Court of Virginia · 1911
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3Cited by10 opinions
- Norfolk & Portsmouth Belt Line Railroad v. BarkerSupreme Court of Virginia · 1981
- Washington & Old Dominion Railroad v. TaylorSupreme Court of Virginia · 1948
- Simmons v. AdamsSupreme Court of Virginia · 1961
- Atlantic Coast Line Railroad v. GatesSupreme Court of Virginia · 1947
- Henry James Taylor, an Infant, Who Sues by and Through His Mother and Next Friend, Gertrude Marie Taylor v. United StatesCourt of Appeals for the Fourth Circuit · 1966
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