Winfree v. Jones
Supreme Court of Virginia
Error to a judgment of tlie Corporation Court of tile city of Newport News in an action of Trespass on the Case. Judgment for the plaintiff. Defendant assigns error. The opinion states the case.
1Opinion of the CourtHarrison, J.
M. B. Jones, the plaintiff in the court below, brought this action to recover damages of the defendant, W. B. Winfree, for having, as alleged, negligently permitted a certain house to be burned while it was in his possession as tenant to the plaintiff, by abandoning it and leaving it unlocked so that it was wrongfully entered, burned, and destroyed.
There was a verdict of $300 for the plaintiff, upon which judgment was entered by the lower court, and thereupon this writ of error was awarded.
The first error assigned is the action of the lower court in rejecting a plea of bankruptcy tendered by…
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