Virginian Ry. Co. v. Halstead
Court of Appeals for the Fourth Circuit
In Error to the District Court of the United States for the Eastern District of Virginia, at Norfolk; Edmund Waddill,. Jr., Judge. Action at law by Vernon Halstead, by Nora Halstead, his next friend, against the Virginian Railway Company. Judgment for plaintiff, and defendant brings error.
1Opinion of the Court
WOODS, Circuit Judge.
[1] The plaintiff Vernon Halstead recovered a judgment against Virginian Railway Company for injuries alleged to be the result of defendant’s negligence.. The facts are not in dispute. At the time of the accident, plaintiff was a brakeman in defendant's barney yard between Jamestown Boulevard and Sewell’s Point, in Norfolk county, Va. In this yard cars loaded with coal are collected and send by gravity to the scales and thence to the coal piers. For this movement it was necessary for the brakeman to throw the switch in order to shift the cars from one track to another,…
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