Norfolk-Southern Railway Co. v. Tomlinson
Supreme Court of Virginia
Error to a judgment of the Circuit Court of Nor foil; county, in an action of trespass on the case. Judgment for the plaintiff. Defendant assigns error.
1Opinion of the CourtBuchanan, J.
The defendant in error, who was the plaintiff in the trial court and who will be designated in this opinion as plaintiff, was injured in a derailment of the car in which he was traveling as a passenger over the defendant railroad company’s road. The defendant introduced evidence tending to show that when the derailment occurred its train was running, in the day time, over a straight track, through a level country, a little behind time, but not at an excessive or unusual rate of speed, when three of the four cars in the train jumped the track and turned over. The defendant further introduced…
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