Valz v. Goodykoontz
Supreme Court of Virginia
Error to a judgment of the Circuit Court of Amherst county in an action of trespass on the case. Judgment for the plaintiff. Defendant assigns error.
1Opinion of the CourtWhittle, J.
The judgment under review was rendered for the defendant in error (the plaintiff below) on a demurrer to the evidence by the defendant.
The following are the essential facts of the case as thus submitted: The defendant, Valz, was a railroad contractor in the employment of the Western State Hospital, engaged in grading a spur track from the Norfolk and Western Railway, at a point about one mile east of Lynchburg, to the power house of the Virginia State Epileptic Colony in Amherst county. At the time of the accident the defendant, in the course of his work, had caused a large quantity of rock…
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