Washington, Alexandria & Mt. Vernon Electric Railway Co. v. Quayle
Supreme Court of Virginia
Error to a judgment of the Corporation Court of the city of Alexandria, rendered October 29, 1896, in an action of trespass on the case wherein the defendant in error was the plaintiff, and the plaintiff in error was the defendant.
1Opinion of the CourtHarrison, J.
Charles Edward Quayle, an infant thirteen years of age, by his next friend, instituted this action to recover damages for injuries alleged to have been sustained by him in consequence of the careless and negligent conduct of the plaintiff in error in operating and running its electric cars through the streets of the city of Alexandria.
There was a judgment in favor of the plaintiff which we are now asked to review.
The material facts which the record tends to' establish are that Charles S. Jones, an employee of the plaintiff in error, acting in the double capacity of motonnan and conductor, was…
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