Crookshank v. Chesapeake & Ohio Railway Co.

"Woods, Judge:

The plaintiff, W. B. Crookshank, complains of judgment entered by the circuit court of Kanawha county upon a directed verdict in favor of the defendant, Chesapeake & Ohio Railway Company.

The action was brought to recover damages for the destruction of the plaintiff’s automobile at a public crossing of defendant’s railway tracks immediately west of its station in Charleston, by a west bound passenger train. The plaintiff, accompanied by Dr. C. N. Watts, was traveling westward in the automobile from Charleston to St. Albans, a distance of from twelve to fifteen miles. According to…