Board of Trade Building Corp. v. Cralle
Supreme Court of Virginia
Error to a judgment of the Law and Chancery CgfH-’t- of the city of Norfolk in an action of trespass on the case. Judgment for the plaintiff. Defendant assigns error.
1Opinion of the CourtBuchanan, J.
■ This is an action to recover damages for personal injuries suffered by the defendant in error whilst on a passenger elevator of the plaintiff in error. There was a‘verdict and judgment against the defendant in the trial court, and to that judgment this writ of error was awarded upon its petition.
The evidence, so far as it is material to the questions involved in this court, shows that the defendant company was the owner of a seven story office building in the city of Norfolk, in which it operated two passenger elevators. On the seventh floor of the building are the rooms of the Board of…
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