Derring's Administrator v. Virginia Railway & Power Co.
Supreme Court of Virginia
Error to a judgment of the Circuit Court of Norfolk county, in an action of trespass on the case. Judgment for defendant. Plaintiff assigns error.
1Opinion of the CourtBurks, J.
This is an action to recover for the negligent killing of the plaintiff’s intestate. There was a demurrer to the evidence by the defendant company which the trial court sustained, and to the judgment sustaining the demurrer this writ of error’was awarded. The judgment of the trial court is so plainly right that it would seem unnecessary to do more than merely state the facts.
The plaintiff’s intestate and his brother, J. A. Derring, had been fishing near Chesapeake station, in Norfolk county. This station is near Ocean View, on the double-track line of the defendant between Norfolk and Ocean…
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