McNabb v. Virginian Ry. Co.

Willie McNabb, appellant, brought this action of trespass on the ease against the Virginian Railway Company, a corporation, appellee, and against H. Clay Jacobs and R. C. Lambert, in the circuit court of Payette county, W. Va. The cause was subsequently removed to the District Court of the United States for the Southern District of West Virginia) and the defendants H. Clay Jacobs and R. C. Lambert were dismissed as defendants, and, the defendant, Virginian Railway Company, having pleaded not guilty, the issue was tried before a jury in May, 1931.

After the conclusion of the evidence for both…