Richmond & Danville Railroad v. Childress

Bleckley, Chief Justice.

Childress, a lad thirteen or fourteen years of age, recovered a verdict against the railroad company for $3,500, on account of a personal injury alleged to be permanent. The seat of the injury was the chest. The company made a motion for a new trial on several grounds, the 4th being as follows : “Because the court erred in declining to order the examination of Childress by physicians to be appointed by the court, on the motion of defendant before the jury was impanelled but after the case was called for trial, for the purpose of determining whether or not he had been…