Harrell v. Virginia Electric & Power Co.

By motion for judgment, the plaintiff, Ernest E. Harrell, sought to recover from the Virginia Electric and Power Company compensation in damages for injury to himself and to his automobile. That motion was based upon an accident which occurred in Norfolk on March 2, 1939, at about nine o’clock at night. He obtained a jury’s verdict, but that verdict was set aside by the court, which entered final judgment for the defendant.

It happened on 25th street, between Llewellyn avenue and De Bree avenue, and near the center of that block. These streets are straig’ht and level and cross each other at…