Norfolk & Western Railway Co. v. Sykes

200 Va. 541 (1959)

NORFOLK AND WESTERN RAILWAY COMPANY, A CORPORATION, AND H. W. KNIGHT

v.

ROY L. SYKES, ADMINISTRATOR OF THE ESTATE OF LUCILLE RHODES.

Record No. 4813.

Supreme Court of Virginia.

January 26, 1959.

on brief), for the plaintiffs in error.

Henry E. Howell (Guy E. Daugherty; Jett, Sykes & Howell, on brief), for the defendant in error.

Present, All the Justices.

Mrs. Rhodes was killed when the automobile in which she was a passenger was struck by defendant's passenger train at a crossing near Portsmouth. Her administrator recovered a verdict for $15,000 which defendant on appeal alleged to…