Chesapeake & Ohio Railway Co. v. Hoffman
Supreme Court of Virginia
Error tó a judgment of the Corporation Court of the city of Newport News in an action of trespass on the case. Judgment for the plaintiff. Defendant assigns error. On the trial the plaintiff tendered one instruction on the measure of damages which was given, and is.copied in the opinion below. Tbe defendant tendered three instructions on the same subject, which the trial court refused, to give.
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Error tó a judgment of the Corporation Court of the city of Newport News in an action of trespass on the case. Judgment for the plaintiff. Defendant assigns error. On the trial the plaintiff tendered one instruction on the measure of damages which was given, and is.copied in the opinion below. Tbe defendant tendered three instructions on the same subject, which the trial court refused, to give. The following are copies of the declaration, grounds of demurrer assigned to the declaration, instructions refused and specifications of grounds of demurrer to the evidence: The Deolabatioh. “W. F.…
1Opinion of the Court
Keith, P.,
delivered the opinion of the court.
While working as a mechanic upon a pier belonging to the *63Chesapeake and. Ohio Hallway Conrpany, Hoffman sustained injuries for which he brought suit, and the jury rendered a verdict in his behalf for $2,500, subject to a demurrer to the evidence.
Numerous rulings of the trial court were excepted to, and are now before us for review upon a writ of error awarded the railway company.
The first error assigned is that the demurrer to the declaration was overruled by the trial court.
The declaration is a lengthy one. The circumstances out of which the cause…
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