Virginian Railway Co. v. Hillsman

The petitioner, Virginian Railway Company, is here complaining of a verdict and judgment in favor of W. J. Hillsman in an action for damages arising from personal injury.

*362The facts deemed necessary to be slated are that on the morning of February 22, 1931, just after midnight, Mr. Hillsman drove from his home in Farmville, Virginia, to the railroad company’s station at Abilene, Virginia, for the purpose of meeting his daughter, who was a passenger on the company’s train, scheduled to arrive at that station about that time. The night was dark and it was raining. Mr. Hillsman had been at the…