Legal Opinion

Riggs v. West Penn Public Service Co.

West Virginia Supreme Court

Decided March 20, 1928No. 5756PublishedCited by 1 opinion

1Opinion of the Court

Litz, Judge:

Clifford B.'Riggs, as administrator of his father,. W. M. Riggs, deceased, prosecutes error to judgment of the circuit court entered on a directed verdict in favor of Monongahela West Penn Public Service Company, a corporation, in an action of trespass on the ease for alleged wrongful death of decedent, resulting from a collision between a Ford coupe automobile operated by Clifford B. Riggs, in which W. M. Riggs was riding, and a street ear owned and operated over its electric railway by the defendant.

The accident occurred on the afternoon of August 15, 1925, in North Parkersburg…

2Cases cited5 opinions

  1. Jameson v. Norfolk & W. Ry. Co.West Virginia Supreme Court · 1924
  2. Mobile Light R. Co. v. GadikSupreme Court of Alabama · 1924
  3. Riedel v. Traction Co.West Virginia Supreme Court · 1911
  4. Draper v. Mercer Hardware & Furn. Co.West Virginia Supreme Court · 1927
  5. Graupner Casper v. WellsMissouri Court of Appeals · 1924

3Cited by1 opinion

  1. Smith v. GouldWest Virginia Supreme Court · 1931

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