Norfolk & Carolina Railroad v. Suffolk Lumber Co.

Error to a judgment of the Corporation Court of the city of Norfolk, rendered July 22, 1892, in an action of covenant, wherein the defendant in error was the plaintiff, and the plaintiff in error was the defendant. This was an action to recover damages for breach of covenant. During the progress of the trial the defendant tendered eleven pleas to each count of the declaration, the rulings upon which by the trial court are noticed in the opinion of this court. ■ The second, third, fifth, and eleventh of these pleas to the first count—those to the second count being substantially the same—are…