City of Richmond v. Mason
Supreme Court of Virginia
Error to a judgment of the Law and Equity Court of the city of Richmond in an action of trespass on the case. Judgment for the plaintiff. Defendant assigns error.
1Opinion of the Court
Keith, P.,
delivered the opinion of the court.
Mrs. Mason instituted her suit in the Law and Equity Court of the city of Richmond to recover damages for an injury sustained by her by stepping into a trench or hole in the roadbed at the point of intersection of “27” and 32nd streets, on the 14th of May, 1907. She recovered a judgment for $1,500, and the case is before us upon a writ of error.
In the course of the trial, the city offered witnesses to prove that “it had used reasonable care to place the streets in the annexed territory (the point at which the accident happened having been in the…
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