Legal Opinion

Kay v. Director General of Railroads

West Virginia Supreme Court

Decided March 30, 1920PublishedCited by 2 opinions

Error to Circuit Court, Mason County. Action by John Kay, Sr., against the Director General of Railroads. Verdict for plaintiff, motion to set aside verdict overruled, and defendant brings error.

1Opinion of the Court

Poeeenbagee, Judge :

This writ of error goes to a judgment rendered in an action for recovery of damages for alleged negligent killing of a steer and injury to another. The defendant allowed the case to go to the jury, without defénsive evidence, on the theory of insufficiency of the plaintiff’s evidence to sustain a verdict. It moved *94to strike out the evidence adduced, and, its motion having been overruled and a verdict found for the plaintiff, it attacked the verdict'by a motion to set aside, which the court overruled.

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2Cases cited10 opinions

  1. Alabama Great Southern Railroad v. JonesSupreme Court of Alabama · 1882
  2. Harvey Coal & Coke Co. v. Chesapeake & Ohio Ry. Co.West Virginia Supreme Court · 1911
  3. Toudy v. Norfolk & W. R.West Virginia Supreme Court · 1894
  4. Underwood v. Chesapeake & Ohio Railway Co.West Virginia Supreme Court · 1916
  5. Lovejoy v. Chesapeake & O. R'y Co.West Virginia Supreme Court · 1896

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3Cited by2 opinions

  1. State Highway Department v. RainesCourt of Appeals of Georgia · 1959
  2. Warden v. HinesWest Virginia Supreme Court · 1921

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