Legal Opinion
Norfolk & Western R. Co. v. Commonwealth
Supreme Court of Virginia
Decided June 11, 1896PublishedCited by 13 opinions
Argued at Richmond. Decided at Wytheyiile. Error to a judgment of the Circuit Court of Appomattox county, rendered December 10,1894, affirming the judgment of the County Court of said county, rendered November 9, 1893, whereby the plaintiff in error was adjudged to pay a fine of $50 for running a freight train on Sunday.
1Opinion of the CourtBuchanan, J.
The plaintiff in error was indicted in the County Court of Appomattox county for violating sec. 3801 of the Code, which is as follows:
“ No railroad company, receiver, or trustee controlling or operating a railroad, shall by any agent or employee, load, unload, run or transport upon such road on a Sunday, any car, train of cars, or locomotive, nor permit the same to be done by any such agent or employee, except where such cars, trains, or locomotives are used exclusively for the relief of wrecked trains, or trains so disabled as to obstruct the main track of the railroad; or for the…
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