Sims v. Norfolk & Western Ry Co.

Plaintiffs in error, Sims, Exr., et al., being the plaintiffs in the lower court, claim in their petition that the defendant Norfolk Western Railway Company unlawfully entered upon their premises and destroyed a certain frame building to their damage in the sum of $2500. The defendant, The Norfolk Western Railway Company, for answer filed a general denial. An issue was thus raised by the pleadings, and the case was submitted to a jury with the result that the jury found in favor of the plaintiffs in the sum of $500, with interest at 6 per cent. per annum from June, 1928, or a total amount of…