P. Lorillard Co. v. Clay
Supreme Court of Virginia
Error to a judgment of the Law and Equity Court of city of Richmond, in an action of trespass on the case. Judgment for plaintiff. Defendant assigns error.
1Opinion of the CourtBurks, J.
*740Bryan Clay recovered a judgment against P. Lorillard Co. Inc., for $15,000.00, for the loss of an eye, alleged to have been caused by the negligence of the company while he was in its employment as a servant. This judgment the company seeks to have reversed.
[1] Formerly a plaintiff in error stood in this court in the position of a demurrant to the evidence, but this has' been changed. Now, in stating a case in this court which has been tried by a jury, it must be stated as the jury may have viewed it, remembering always that the jury are the sole judges of the weight to be given to the…
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