Riverside Cotton Mills v. Lanier
Supreme Court of Virginia
Error to a judgment of the Corporation Court of the city of Danville in an action of trespass on the case wherein the defendant in error was the plaintiff, and the plaintiff in error and the city of Danville were the defendants. The evidence sufficiently appears in the opinion of the court.
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Error to a judgment of the Corporation Court of the city of Danville in an action of trespass on the case wherein the defendant in error was the plaintiff, and the plaintiff in error and the city of Danville were the defendants. The evidence sufficiently appears in the opinion of the court. The following instructions referred to in the opinion were given: Plaintiff’s Instruction, Ho. 1. “The court instructs the jury that it is the duty of the city of Danville, as a municipal corporation, acting under its charter, to keep the public culverts and drains, under its control, open and free from…
1Opinion of the CourtWhittle, J.
This is an action of trespass on the case brought by the defendant in error, W. S. Lanier, against the city of Danville and the Riverside Cotton Mills, the plaintiff in error, to recover damages for injury to a lot and buildings upon it, the property of the defendant in error, fronting on the east side of north Main street, in what is now the fourth ward of the city of Dan-ville.
The injury complained of is alleged to have been occasioned by the wrongful conduct of the defendants in obstructing the flow of water through a culvert under the roadbed of the Southern Railway Company, and River…
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