Legal Opinion
Gregory v. Lehigh Portland Cement Co.
Supreme Court of Virginia
Decided January 14, 1932PublishedCited by 8 opinions
1Opinion of the CourtBrowning, J.
This was an action at law brought in the Circuit Court of Augusta county, in February, 1929, for damages for injuries to an infant, Oliver T. Gregory, occasioned by the explosion of a dynamite cap or caps on February 20, 1928.
The action was instituted by the infant, by his father, as his next friend. The parties will be referred to as they were related in the trial court. We here detail the established facts. The father of the plaintiff owned a small oblong tract of land containing about four acres which adjoined the lands of the defendant. In July, 1925, the line fence between these…
2Cases cited33 opinions
- Milwaukee & Saint Paul Railway Co. v. KelloggSupreme Court of the United States · 1877
- Powers v. HarlowMichigan Supreme Court · 1884
- Mattson v. Minnesota & North Wisconsin RailroadSupreme Court of Minnesota · 1905
- Horan v. Inhabitants of WatertownMassachusetts Supreme Judicial Court · 1914
- Perry v. . Rochester Lime Co.New York Court of Appeals · 1916
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3Cited by8 opinions
- Washabaugh v. Northern Virginia Construction Co.Supreme Court of Virginia · 1948
- Daugherty v. HippchenSupreme Court of Virginia · 1940
- Barnette v. DickensSupreme Court of Virginia · 1964
- Dennis v. Odend'Hal-Monks Corp.Supreme Court of Virginia · 1943
- Henry James Taylor, an Infant Who Sues by and Through His Mother and Next Friend, Gertrude Marie Taylor v. United StatesCourt of Appeals for the Fourth Circuit · 1963
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