Alford v. Kanawha & West Virginia Railroad Co.
West Virginia Supreme Court
Error to Circuit Court, Kanawha County. Action by J. R. Alford against the Kanawha & West Virginia Railroad Company. Judgment for plaintiff, and defendant brings error.
1Opinion of the Court
Ritz, Judge:
By this writ of error defendant seeks reversal of a judgment against it for damages for the alleged negligent killing of stock, by one of its trains. The steer which it is contended was negligently killed was struck by defendant company’s; pasenger train, consisting of eight passenger, coaches and a locomotive. Approaching the place at which the steer was. struck from the direction in which the train came there is a curve about 250 to 300 feet from the point of the accident which -prevented the trainmen from seeing the point of accident until within that distance thereof. It was…
2Cases cited8 opinions
- Norfolk Railway & Light Co. v. CorlettoSupreme Court of Virginia · 1902
- Purkey v. Southern Coal & Transportation Co.West Virginia Supreme Court · 1905
- Richmond Passenger & Power Co. v. RacksSupreme Court of Virginia · 1903
- Gourley v. St. Louis & San Francisco Railway Co.Missouri Court of Appeals · 1889
- Louisville & Nashville Railroad v. Burch's AdministratorCourt of Appeals of Kentucky · 1913
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