Virginia Electric & Power Co. v. Ford

The error, as I see it, in the majority opinion lies partly in the fact that it deals with the case as if defendant were operating a steam railroad through a rural community. The defendant operates a trolley car on the public highway, with the consent of the proper authorities.*

*631The scene of the accident was at a street intersection in “a modem subdivision” just south of the corporate limits of the city of Richmond. Under these circumstances, I do not think it was negligence, as a matter of law, for the driver of the motor vehicle to attempt to cross the tracks of the street car company, when…