Meanley v. Petersburg, Hopewell & City Point Railway Co.

The plaintiff, Meanley, was struck by a car of the defendant company at Hopewell, instituted his action therefor, and upon the trial there was a verdict and judgment in favor of the company, of which he is here complaining.

*175The place and circumstances of the injury (in view of the verdict) may he thus described: The company operated an electric railway between Petersburg and Hopewell, and at the Hopewell station its track made a loop upon which its cars turned for the return to Petersburg. The passenger station at Hopewell was near -the public road and the approach to the station was from its…