N. & W. R. R. v. Williams
Supreme Court of Virginia
Error to judgment of circuit court of the county of Montgomery, rendered in an action for personal injuries, wherein one M. D. Williams was plaintiff and the Norfolk and Western Railroad Company was defendant. The verdict and judgment being adverse to the company, it obtained a writ of error and supersedeas. Opinion states the case.
1Opinion of the Court
Lewis, P.,
delivered the opinion of the court.
The plaintiff below, the defendant in error here, was an engineman in the employ of the defendant company. On the 1st of July, 1890, about 4 o’clock in the morning, the passenger train upon which he was employed left Radford for Roanoke, and arrived at Big Spring, an intermediate station, about an hour afterwards.
At the latter station there were two sidings—one on the south side of the main track, known as the local or storage siding; the other on the north side, which was a passing siding. The east end of this siding connects with the main track…
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