Legal Opinion
Norfolk & Western Railway Co. v. James
Supreme Court of Virginia
Decided January 20, 1927PublishedCited by 18 opinions
1Opinion of the CourtWest, J.
Berta P. James recovered a judgment against the Norfolk and Western Railway Company for $4,000, for injuries sustained by her when the automobile in which she was riding ran over the embankment, at an overhead bridge, down upon the company’s tracks in a cut thirty-five feet deep. The Norfolk and Western *181Railway Company is here complaining of that judgment.
On Saturday, September 1, 1923,' at three o’clock a. m.,fBerta F. James left her home in the town of Yinton, near Roanoke, in a Chevrolet automobile owned and driven by D. H. James, her husband. She and her two children occupied the back…
2Cases cited16 opinions
- Shultz v. Old Colony Street Railway Co.Massachusetts Supreme Judicial Court · 1907
- St. Louis S. F. R. Co. v. BellSupreme Court of Oklahoma · 1916
- Virginia Railway & Power Co. v. GorsuchSupreme Court of Virginia · 1917
- Reading Township v. TelferSupreme Court of Kansas · 1897
- Anthony v. KiefnerSupreme Court of Kansas · 1915
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3Cited by18 opinions
- Keeshin Motor Express Co. v. GlassmanIndiana Supreme Court · 1942
- Stillwater Milling Co. v. TemplinSupreme Court of Oklahoma · 1938
- Carroll v. HutchinsonSupreme Court of Virginia · 1939
- Miles v. RoseSupreme Court of Virginia · 1934
- Coffey v. CommonwealthSupreme Court of Virginia · 1949
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