Virginia Midland R. R. v. Roach
Supreme Court of Virginia
Error to judgment of circuit court of Pittsylvania county, rendered tenth December, 1885, in an action of trespass on the case wherein John D. Eoach was plaintiff and the Virginia Midland Eailway Company was defendant. The object of this action was to recover damages for an injury inflicted on the plaintiff by the negligence of the defendant company’s employees, whilst the plaintiff was riding on one of the company’s engines at the invitation of the driver thereof.
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Error to judgment of circuit court of Pittsylvania county, rendered tenth December, 1885, in an action of trespass on the case wherein John D. Eoach was plaintiff and the Virginia Midland Eailway Company was defendant. The object of this action was to recover damages for an injury inflicted on the plaintiff by the negligence of the defendant company’s employees, whilst the plaintiff was riding on one of the company’s engines at the invitation of the driver thereof. The jury found a verdict for $500 against the defendant company. This verdict the defendant moved the court to set aside, as…
1Opinion of the CourtHinton, J.
This is an action of tort in which the plaintiff recovered a verdict for $500, and the sole question we have to decide now is, whether the court erred in refusing to set aside that verdict and to award a new trial in this case.
As appears from the record, on the sixth day of March, 1883, E. B. Fortune, the engineer of the train on the narrow-gauge railroad from Elba, in Pittsylvania county, to Rooky Mount, in Franklin county, invited the plaintiff to ride on the engine with him; the plaintiff, Roach, accepted the invitation and rode about seven or eight miles to Pitts-ville, where he got off…
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