Wickham & Northrop v. Green
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. Defendants assign error.
1Opinion of the CourtWhittle, J.
This is a personal injury action in which there was a verdict and judgment for the defendant in error, who was plaintiff in the trial court.
We are met at the threshold of the case with a question of statutory construction of more than ordinary interest. The summons was issued May 1, 1908 (only seventeen days before the right of action would have been barred by the statute of limitations), and was returnable to second May rules, at which rules the process was returned executed, and the case was continued at that and the succeeding June rules for declaration. When more than one month had…
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