Seaboard & Roanoke Railroad v. Hickey
Supreme Court of Virginia
Error to a judgment of the Hustings Court of the city of Portsmouth, in an action of trespass on the case, wherein the defendant in error was the plaintiff, and the plaintiff in error was the defendant.
1Opinion of the CourtWhittle, J.
*395This action was brought by defendant in error to recover damages from the plaintiff in error, who was the defendant in the court below, for personal injuries alleged to have been inflicted upon him by the negligence of the defendant.
The specific allegation of the amended declaration is that during a carnival in the city of Portsmouth the defendant, while running a freight train over its tracks along one of the streets of that city, negligently permitted the plaintiff, a boy eight years and four months of age, to attempt to climb and ride upon one of its cars; that while so attempting to climb…
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