Riverside & Dan River Cotton Mills, Inc. v. Waugh
Supreme Court of Virginia
Error to a judgment of the Circuit Court of Pittsylvania county in an action of trespass on the case. Judgment for the plaintiff. Defendant assigns error.
1Opinion of the CourtKelly, J.
This was an action of trespass on the case brought to recover damages alleged to have resulted to a tract of land in Pittsylvania county by reason of the negligent construction and maintenance of a power house, dam and auxiliary structures (hereinafter, for convenience, referred to merely as the dam) in and across Dan river. There was a judgment for the plaintiff, which is now under review.
The facts, so far as they need to be stated for the purposes of this opinion, are as follows: The Dan River Power and Manufacturing Company, a Virginia corporation, constructed the dam, and afterwards, in…
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