Virginia Railway & Power Co. v. Hubbard
Supreme Court of Virginia
•Error to a judgment of the Circuit Court of Norfolk county, in am action of trespass on the case. Judgment for the plaintiff. Defendant assigns error.
1Opinion of the CourtPrentis, J.
The evidence in this case is sufficient to show that Mrs. Hubbard, while riding as a passenger on a car of the defendant company, was injured because a fellow passenger, Zimmer, who was standing in the aisle of the car stooping *666over talking to another passenger, when the car suddenly-started, fell upon her, his hand or fist striking her in the abdomen, from which blow she immediately suffered very great pain and inconvenience. Mrs. Hubbard for some years previous to that time had had a fibroid tumor in her womb, which she had been advised to have removed, but which had hot been done because,…
2Cases cited7 opinions
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- Virginia Railway & Power Co. v. McDemmickSupreme Court of Virginia · 1915
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