Watkins v. Norfolk & Western Railway Co.

Rose, Judge:

In two separate actions against the Norfolk & Western Railway Company and C. D. Trent by Fred B. Watkins and A. J. Young, respectively, on a trial by the court in lieu of a jury of the issues raised by a plea in abatement filed in each case by the railway company, the pleas were sustained and the actions dismissed, following which these writs of error were awarded.

The plaintiffs Watkins and Young are coal miners and members of a “burial committee for The colored” at the village of Helen in Raleigh County. C. D. Trent is an undertaker. On the 17th day of February, 1941, Trent was…