Wyatt v. Chesapeake & Potomac Telephone Co.

This is an action to recover damages for injuries suffered by the plaintiff on the night of December 15, 1929, when an automobile in which she was riding, driven by her husband, struck one of the poles of the defendant company. They were at that time returning to Hampton along the East Hampton-Buckroe Beach road. She recovered a verdict which the trial court, on motion, set aside, being of opinion that this pole upon the highway was not the proximate cause of injury. It then dismissed the case under authority conferred upon it by Code, section 6251.

This road is thirty feet wide. Along its…