Dun v. Seaboard & Roanoke Railroad
Supreme Court of Virginia
Error to judgment of hustings court of Portsmouth city, rendered 25th October, 1881, in action of trespass on the case wherein John P. Dun was plaintiff and the Seaboard and Roanoke Railroad Company defendant. The object of the action was to recover damages for injury inflicted on the plaintiff through the alleged negligence of the defendant.
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Error to judgment of hustings court of Portsmouth city, rendered 25th October, 1881, in action of trespass on the case wherein John P. Dun was plaintiff and the Seaboard and Roanoke Railroad Company defendant. The object of the action was to recover damages for injury inflicted on the plaintiff through the alleged negligence of the defendant. The plaintiff was a passenger on the defendant’s railroad; was sitting in a swiftly moving car with his arm protruding a short distance, to-wit: two inches outside of the open car window, when he was struck on the elbow outside the car by some cord-wood…
1Opinion of the CourtLacy, J.
The plaintiff in error was a passenger on the cars of the-defendant company on-the 14th August, 1880, and having-his arm outside of the window of the car while the train was rapidly moving along the track, was struck upon his arm outside of the window by some cord wood ranked near-the track of the road, and was seriously hurt. In March,. 1881, suit was instituted by the said plaintiff in error against the said railroad company, claiming $5,000 in damages for alleged carelessness and negligence in the-said railroad company, in causing the said injury to be-inflicted upon him, and set forth in…
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