Chesapeake & Ohio Railway Co. v. Anderson
Supreme Court of Virginia
Error to a judgment of the Circuit Court of Botetourt county, rendered June 4, 1895, in an action of trespass on the case wherein the defendant in error was the plaintiff, and the plaintiff in error was the defendant. This was an action by a youth sixteen or seventeen years of age, suing by his next friend, to recover damages for a personal injury to him while stealing a ride on one of the fast freight trains of the plaintiff in error.
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Error to a judgment of the Circuit Court of Botetourt county, rendered June 4, 1895, in an action of trespass on the case wherein the defendant in error was the plaintiff, and the plaintiff in error was the defendant. This was an action by a youth sixteen or seventeen years of age, suing by his next friend, to recover damages for a personal injury to him while stealing a ride on one of the fast freight trains of the plaintiff in error. The defendant in error claims that he was kicked off the train by the front brakeman, while the train was in motion, and, in consequence, fell on the track and…
1Opinion of the CourtCardwell, J.
This is a writ of error to a judgment of the Circuit Court of Botetourt county in favor of the defendant in error, an infant suing by next friend, against the plaintiff in error, the Chesapeake and Ohio Railway Company, for the sum of $2,845.
On the fifth day of August, 1894, the plaintiff in .error, which is a common carrier, operating a line of railway through the State of Virginia and other States, ran one of its fast through freight trains, known as train number ninety-nine, from the town of Gladstone to the town of Clifton Forge, in Virginia, in charge of one crew. The crew which took…
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