Virginia & Southwestern Railway Co. v. Hill
Supreme Court of Virginia
Error to a judgment of the Circuit Court of Lee county in a proceeding by motion for a judgment for damages. Judgment for the plaintiff. Defendant assigns error.
1Opinion of the CourtWhittle, J.
The judgment drawn in question on this writ of error was recovered by the defendant in error, W. R. Hill, against the plaintiff in error, the Yirginia and Southwestern Railway Company, on motion, for personal injuries. ■
Hill was an experienced freight conductor, and in the capacity of yard and mine conductor had been in the service of the plaintiff, in error for four years, hauling coal from the mines in the vicinity of St. Charles, in Lee county, Yirginia.
The grounds of negligence imputed to the defendant are that it failed to use ordinary care to provide the plaintiff with reasonably safe…
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