George v. Norfolk & Western Ry. Co.
West Virginia Supreme Court
Error to Circuit Court, Mercer County. Action by C. C. George against the Norfolk & Western Railway Company and another. Judgment for plaintiff, and de-fandants brin£ error.
1Opinion of the Court
POEEENBARGER, JUDGE :
This is a writ of error to a judgment against tbe defendant railway company and one of its agents, for $1,000.00, as damages occasioned by alleged false arrest and imprisonment of the plaintiff and denial and prevention of his right of carriage and protection as a passenger, by the railway company.
The principal assignment of error is based upon the refusal of the court'to permit the defendants to prove a plea of guilt of the crime of larceny, by the plaintiff, and his conviction thereof in the police court of the town of Pocahontas, Virginia, at which place he was, in the…
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