Legal Opinion
Davis v. Merrill
Supreme Court of Virginia
Decided June 15, 1922PublishedCited by 63 opinions
1Opinion of the CourtWest, J.
The defendant in error, E. S. Merrill, administrator of Claudia Harrell, deceased, recovered a judgment against John Barton Payne, Director General of Railroads, the immediate predecessor of .the plaintiff in error, J. C. Davis, Director General of Railroads and Agent under section 206 of the transportation act of 1920 (41 Stat. 461), in the Circuit Court of the city of Norfolk, for 110,000.00, with interest from November 18, 1920, and costs, for negligently and wrongfully causing the death of said Claudia Harrell. The case is here upon a writ of error to that judgment.
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