Pollock v. Wheeling Traction Co.
West Virginia Supreme Court
Error to Circuit Court, Marshall County. Action by Ste-phona Pollock against the Wheeling Traction Company. Verdict and judgment for plaintiff, and defendant brings error.
1Opinion of the Court
MlLLER, PRESIDENT :
Defendant was sued by plaintiff in March, 1917, for personal injuries sustained by being precipitated over a high, embankment at a place called the “Narrows,” on the public road in Marshall County, while a passenger in an automobile then owned and driven by one Daugherty. There was-, a verdict and to the judgment thereon for plaintiff for' $10,000.00 defendant sued out the present writ of error.
The basis of plaintiff’s action, rather laboriously and with great redundancy of words pleaded in the two counts of the* declaration, is alleged breach of duty of the defendant com-,…
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