Stephen Putney Shoe Co. v. Ormsby's Administrator
Supreme Court of Virginia
Error to a judgment of the Law and Equity Court of the city of Richmond in an action of trespass on the case. Judgment for plaintiff. Defendant assigns error.
1Opinion of the Court
Kelly, P.,
delivered the opinion of the court.
S. M. Ormsby was struck and seriously injured by a Ford truck owned by Stephen Putney Shoe Company, Incorporated, and driven by Thomas Cooper, a colored man in the employment of that company. Ormsby died shortly afterwards. An action for damages followed, in which his administrator recovered against the company a verdict and judgment for five thousand dollars.
The accident occurred in the city of Richmond, on the east side of Ninth street, a few feet north of the point where that street is intersected by the north line of the driveway leading east…
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