Adams v. Virginian Gasoline & Oil Co.

Maxwell, Judge :

This writ of error lies to a judgment of the circuit court of Roane County for $10,000.00 based on a verdict in like amount in favor of the administrator of the estate of James Philip Adams, deceased, against Virginian Gasoline & Oil Company, a corporation, for the death of said decedent as a result of alleged negligence on the part of defendant.

The deceased, a child of seven years and five months, met his death the 13th day of September, 1929, in a railroad live stock pen at Spencer. The pen in which the accident occurred had been erected in 1926 by the Eoane County…