Southern Railway Co. v. Darnell

In this appeal, we must construe Code § 56-161 and determine *1029whether it is applicable in the present case and, if so, to what extent. In Southern Railway v. Boy, 221 Va. 1022, 277 S.E.2d 172 (1981), the companion case argued with the present case and this day decided, we held that a landowner whose land lies on only one side of a railroad right-of-way may not invoke the provisions of the statute to require a railroad company to repair a bridge which it had previously constructed as part of a wagonway across the right-of-way.

In the present case, Ferna Darnell, Sylvia Darnell, and Ann Darnell…