Sample v. Consolidated Light & Railway Co.
West Virginia Supreme Court
Error to Circuit Court, Cabell County. Action by E. E. Sample, Administrator, against the Consolidated Light and Railway Company. Judgment for plaintiff and defendant appeals.
1Opinion of the Court
McWi-ioRtee, Judge :
The Consolidated Light and Railway Company on the 3rd of October, 1899, being the owner and operating an electric street railway upon Third avenue in the city of Huntington, on that day by one of its cars ran down and killed a child named Charles *473Jennings Lyon., two years and three months of age. On the 7th of October, 1899, E. E. Sample was appointed administrator of said child and brought his action of trespass on the case against said company for the death of the child laying his damages at ten thousand dollars. Defendant demurred to the declaration, which demurrer was…
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