Mannon v. Camden Interstate Railway Co.
West Virginia Supreme Court
Error to Circuit Court, Cabell County. Action by Charles Mannon against the Camden Interstate-Railway Company. Judgement for plaintiff. Defendant brings error.
1Opinion of the Court
Dent, Judge:
The Camden Interstate Railway Company complains of a judgment against it in favor of Charles Mannon, rendered by the circuit court of Cabell county on the 27th day of March, 1902, for the sum of $1,500.00 damages occasioned by an accident.
On the 12th day of September, 1901, Charles Mannon, the plaintiff, an unsophisticated country boy from the state of Ohio, boarded an open car on the defendants’ street railway line extending from the city of Huntington to the town of Guyan-dotte. While the car was running at a rapid rate the trolley wire which had been in use since 1893, and…
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