Chesapeake & Ohio Ry. v. Robinett

Opinion of the Court by

Judge Settle

'Reversing.

In tbis action, the infant appellee, Elizabeth Robinett, in ber own right and by her father as next friend, recovered of the appellant, Chesapeake and Ohio Railway Company, in the court below, a verdict and judgment for $500.00 damages, on account of an assault and battery alleged to have been wrongfully committed upon her, *779while a passenger on one of its trains, by the conductor thereof arid others of the crew, in charge of the train. Appellant complains of the judgment and refusal.of the. circuit court to grant it a new (trial, hence this appeal.