Chesapeake & Nashville Railway v. Crews

— This action was brought in the circuit court of Sumner county to recover damages for an injury done to a traction engine belonging to the defendant in error, by reason of said traction engine having been struct and hurled from the track by an engine of the railway company. There were verdict and judgment in the court below for $500, from which the plaintiff in error, after its motion for a new trial had been overruled, appealed to this court, and has here assigned errors.

*58The criticism made upon the charge of the court in the first assignment of error is that the circuit judge, when…