Spence v. Norfolk & Western Railroad
Supreme Court of Virginia
Error to a judgment of the Circuit Court of Wythe county, rendered February 20, 1891, in an action of trespass on the case, wherein the plaintiffs in error were the plaintiffs, and the defendant in error was the defendant.
1Opinion of the CourtBuchanan, J.
The plaintiff in error brought an action on the case against the defendant in error, for damages for failing, as a common *107carrier, to deliver at their destination, within a reasonable time, two car-loads of vegetables and fruit.
The verdict of the jury and the judgment of the trial court were in favor of the defendant, and to that judgment this writ of error was allowed.
The principal error complained of was the refusal of the court to give instruction Ho. 5 asked for by the plaintiffs, and the giving of an instruction of its own in lieu thereof. The instruction asked for, and which was…
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