Chesapeake & Ohio Railway Co. v. Baker

This is an action by M. H. Baker against the Chesapeake and Ohio Railway Company to recover damages for a personal injury. The plaintiff was a passenger on train No. 12, one of the defendant’s passenger trains, on its James River division on the morning of the 20th day of January, 1925, and was injured when the train upon which he was a passenger was derailed in the vicinity of Lee Station, Virginia. There was a verdict for the plaintiff for $20,000.00 damages, which the trial court refused to set aside, and upon which it entered judgment for the plaintiff. The plaintiff died after the…