NORFOLK SOUTHERN RAILWAY COMPANY v. Horton

Plaintiffs assign as error the signing and entry of the judgments of nonsuit in the two cases.

Plaintiffs succinctly state their contention to be that the stipulation entered into at the 23 October 1967 Session provides that “the rulings and judgment rendered” in the two cases tried at that session would be binding on the parties in the other three cases only to the extent that those rulings were applicable to the facts of the other three cases. They contend, therefore, that the facts of all the cases must be compared to determine the extent to which the stipulation is binding in the other…