Moses v. Old Dominion Iron & Nail Works Co.
Supreme Court of Virginia
Error to judgment of circuit court of city of Richmond, rendered oth July, 1883, in an action for damages wherein Alfred Moses was plaintiff and the Old Dominion Iron and Nail Works Company was defendant.
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Error to judgment of circuit court of city of Richmond, rendered oth July, 1883, in an action for damages wherein Alfred Moses was plaintiff and the Old Dominion Iron and Nail Works Company was defendant. Plaintiff owned a large warehouse in said city, built in 1866, for the purposes of a wholesale commission business, and constantly used as such up to the leasing thereof by the defendant company, January 1, 1876, by which it was used for storing nails and bar-iron, after having in its own way, according to its own plans and by means of its own servants, attempted to make the building…
1Opinion of the CourtHinton, J.
This is a complaint of a judgment of the circuit court of the city of Richmond refusing a new trial on the ground that the verdict was contrary to the evidence, and because of the inadequacy of the damages.
The case was submitted to the jury under proper instructions, which directly presented to them the question whether the destruction of the building was caused by the alleged tempest, the improper construction of the building originally, or by the overloading of the defendant company; and they found a verdict for the plaintiff for “$674.28 without interest.” It is insisted for the plaintiff…
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