Simmons & Winch v. McConnell
Supreme Court of Virginia
Error to judgment of hustings court of Roanoke City rendered at its December term, 1888, in an action of trespass on the case, wherein James A. McConnell, administrator of Rosa McConnell, deceased, was plaintiff, and James S. Simmons and William E. Winch (the plaintiffs in error) were defendants:
1Opinion of the CourtFauntleroy, J.
In the month of April, 1888, James S. Simmons and William F. Winch were the owners and operators of a rock quarry within the corporate limits of Roanoke City, which said quarry had heen worked and owned by William Welch for some six years previous to his selling it to the said Simmons and Winch, some ten months previous to the 5th day of April, 1888, on which day a blast was fired at the said quarry, which threw a fragment of stone weighing some twenty-five pounds into the yard of the dwelling-house of a Mr. Obermeyer, between five hundred and six hundred feet from the said quarry, which…
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