Legal Opinion
Virginian Ry. Co. v. Armentrout
Court of Appeals for the Fourth Circuit
Decided February 19, 1948No. 5682PublishedCited by 141 opinions
1Opinion of the Court
PARKER, Judge.
This is the second appeal in the distressing case of the infant whose hands and portions of whose arms were cut off by a backing locomotive in Raleigh County, West Virginia. On the first trial of the case, the jury failed to agree on a verdict. On the second trial, verdict was given for the plaintiff in the sum of $100,000, which we set aside, awarding a new trial for errors in the charge of the Court. Although we did not find it necessary at that time to pass upon whether a new trial should have been awarded on the ground that the verdict was excessive, we ad verted to the…
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