Donnally v. Payne
West Virginia Supreme Court
Error to Circuit Court, Kanawha County. Action by Wirt W. Donally, administrator, of the estate of Joel il. Meadors, deceased, against John Barton Payne, Director General of Railroads of the United States, for damages for wrongful death of plaintiff’s intestate. A verdict for plaintiff was set aside, and judgment rendered for the defendant, and the plaintiff brings error.
1Opinion of the Court
Poffenbarger, Judge:
Joel H. Meadors, in alighting from a train of the Kanawha and Michigan Railway Company, at Sattes- Station, on the night of October 25; 1918, as a passenger and in an unusual manner, fell between the first coach of the train and the tender, and was killed,' after having been dragged or carried along for a distance of -40 to 80 feet. In this action by his administrator against the Director General of Railroads, for recovery of damages for alleged wrongful death, the jury found a verdict in his favor for $10,000.00, which the trial court set aside, as being unsustained by…
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