Trump v. Tidewater Coal & Coke Co.

Dent, President:

In the case of Fred Trump, etc., against the Tidewater Coal & Coke Company, being a writ of error from a judgment of the circuit court of McDowell County in favor of the plaintiff for the sum of five hundred and ten dollars, the defendant relies on the following assignment of errors: First, the overruling of the demurrér to the declaration; second, not sustaining the motion to strike out plaintiff’s evidence; third, an erroneous instruction given; fourth, overruling the motion to set aside the verdict as contrary to the law and evidence.

The declaration, as set out, appears to…