Thomas v. Monongahela Valley Traction Co.
West Virginia Supreme Court
Error to Circuit Court, Marion County. Action by Howard Tbomas against Monongahela Valley Traction Company, for a personal injury to bim while a passenger on one of defendant’s interurban cars. Judgment for plaintiff, and defendant brings error.
1Opinion of the Court
Ritz Judge:
By this writ of error the defendant seeks reversal of a judgment in favor of the plaintiff for a personal injury sustained by him while a passenger on one of the defendant’s interurban cars by reason of the same becoming derailed and turning over an embankment.
On the 31st of December, 1918, the plaintiff became a passenger on one of the defendant company’s cars being operated from Mannington to Fairmont. The car upon which the plaintiff was a passenger left Mannington about 8:35 P. M., and after it had travelled a little more than half of the distance between Mannington and…
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