Legal Opinion
Godwin v. Camp Manufacturing Co.
Supreme Court of Virginia
Decided January 15, 1945No. Record No. 2827PublishedCited by 6 opinions
1Opinion of the CourtBrowning, J.
The accident which is the basis of this case happened on the 8th day of February 1941 between 1 and 2 o’clock in the morning. George Dempsey Langston; an unmarried man 22 years of age, was driving an automobile from his home, at Gates, North Carolina, to Newport News, Virginia, after attending, with his sister, the “President’s Ball” at Gates. His route was northwardly on the Suffolk-Whaleyville highway, which is crossed nearly at right angles, in a wooded section in Nansemond . County, Virginia, by a standard gauge railroad, belonging to the Camp Manufacturing Company, a corporation engaged…
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