Chesapeake & Ohio Railway Co. v. National Bank of Commerce
Supreme Court of Virginia
Error to a judgment of the Law and Equity Court of city of Richmond, in an action of assumpsit. Judgment for plaintiff. Defendant assigns error. .
1Opinion of the Court
Sims, J.,
after making the foregoing statement, delivered the following opinion of. the court:
The assignments'of error present the questions for our *487•decision which will be considered and disposed of in their order as stated below:
1. Was the defendant, under the facts of this case, the initial carrier, as contemplated by the Federal statute law above mentioned?
As bearing on this question we will, in the outset, state certain general propositions about which there is no serious question made in argument before us, which are as follows
In every case of an action for damages for breach of contract…
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