Fidelity & Casualty Co. v. Chambers
Supreme Court of Virginia
Error to a judgment of the Circuit Court of Greenesville County, rendered October 21,1893, in an action of assumpsit wherein the defendants in error were the plaintiffs, and the plaintiff in error was the defendant.
1Opinion of the CourtCaedwell, J.
This is a writ of error to a judgment of the Circuit Court of Greenesville county upon a demurrer to the plaintiffs’ evidence, the jury having ascertained the plaintiffs’ damages at $2,000.00, the amount covered by the insurance policy sued on, and the defendant in error moves to dismiss the writ of error as improvidently awarded, upon the ground that the record does not show that there was a motion for a new trial in the court below.
This is not an open question in Virginia. It was raised and determined in the case of the Norfolk & Western R. Co. v. Dunnaway’s Admr., decided at the present…
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