Washington & Old Dominion Railway v. Carter
Supreme Court of Virginia
Error to a judgment of the Circuit Court of Fairfax county in an action of trespass on the case. Judgment for the plaintiff. Defendant assigns error.
1Opinion of the Court
Keith, P.,
delivered the opinion of the court.
The declaration in this case shows that the defendant was the owner of a certain railway running from Rosslyn, in Alexandria county, to Leesburg, in Loudoun county, Virginia. The railroad had formerly been operated by steam, but for a part of its line electricity had been substituted as a motive power. It was a postal road and the plaintiff was a postal clerk. The regulations of the United States Post Office Department provided that mail or postal cars in which the mail and mail clerks were transported, and which had a door on each side through…
2Cases cited1 opinion
- Recker v. Southern Railway Co.Supreme Court of Virginia · 1913
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