Field v. Albemarle County
Supreme Court of Virginia
Error to circuit court, Albemarle county. James Gr. Field’s barn was burned by the negligence of some men who were engaged in working the county roads. ' From a judgment holding the county of Albemarle not liable for the damage he sustained he brings error.
1Opinion of the Court
Keith, P.,
delivered the opinion of the court.
*68James Gr. Field filed his petition before the board of supervisors in the county of Albemarle, in which he complained that in the month of October, 1890, he had permitted one Peyton, who was then engaged with a force of hands, plows, carts, mules, and horses in working and repairing the highways of said county, to occupy a barn and stable upon his farm in said county; that the said barn and stable were, on the night of the 3d day of November, 1890, wholly destroyed by fire, and that the fire was the result of the negligence of the county, its…
2Cases cited1 opinion
- Fry v. County of AlbemarleSupreme Court of Virginia · 1890
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