Burr v. Virginia Railway & Power Co.

This action was brought by Mary P. Burr, administratrix of Charles G. Burr, to recover damages for the death of her decedent resulting from injuries sustained in the terminal station of the Virginia Railway and Power Company at Petersburg, Virginia, on the evening of September 12, 1924, charged to have been occasioned by said company’s negligence.

The case has been twice tried. At the first trial there was a judgment for the plaintiff in the sum of $10,000.00, which was reversed by the Supreme Court of Appeals, upon a writ of error obtained by the railway company, for errors committed by the…