Newport News & Old Point Railway & Electric Co. v. Bradford
Supreme Court of Virginia
Error to a judgment of the Circuit Court of Elizabeth City county, rendered January 20, 1900, in an action of trespass on the case, wherein the defendant in error was the plaintiff, and the plaintiff in error was the defendant, and in which the plaintiff in the trial court recovered a verdict and judgment against the defendant for the sum of $700.
1Opinion of the CourtBuchanan, J.
This action was brought by Mrs. Mary E. Bradford to recover damages from the Newport News and Old Point Bailway and Electric Company for injuries suffered by her whilst attempting to pass from one side of Mellen street to the other in the town of Phoebus, over an embankment or ridge of snow thrown upon the street by the defendant company in removing the snow from its line of road.
It appears that for several days prior to the 14th day of Eebruary, 1899, the date of the plaintiff’s injuries, there had been an unusually heavy snow storm along the defendant company’s *119street-car line, which…
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