Hoover's Adm'x. v. Chesapeake & O. Ry. Co.
West Virginia Supreme Court
Error to Circuit Court, Summers County. Action by J. H. Hoover’s administratrix against the Chesapeake & Ohio Railway Company. Judgment for defendant, and plaintiff brings error.
1Opinion of the Court
DeNT, President :
IiTthe case of J. H. Hoover’s administratrix against the Chesapeake & Ohio Railway Company, from the circuit court of Greenbrier County, being' a suit for damages for the negligent killing of plaintiff’s intestate, the declaration alleges that the injury occurred on the 30th day of November, 1891, and that death did not ensue until the 5th day of October, 1893, more than a year thereafter. The defendant insists, for this reason, to-wit,that J. H. Hoover, because of the bar of 'the statute of limitations, not having a cause of action at the time of his death, the plaintiff…
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