Southern Railway Co. v. Johnson's Administratrix
Supreme Court of Virginia
Error to a judgment of the Circuit Court of Shenandoah county in an action of trespass on the case. Judgment for the plaintiff. Defendant assigns error.
1Opinion of the CourtWhittle, J.
The judgment under review was recovered by the defendant in error (plaintilf below) for the alleged negligent killing of her intestate, Amon D. Johnson, in the following circumstances: Johnson was engineman on train 174, a through freight running from Harrisonburg to the Potomac Yards, near Alexandria, Virginia. At 12:35 o’clock in the afternoon of November 9, 1908, he was killed at Pugh’s Eun, a point one and one-half miles east of Woodstock, in a head-on collision with No. 263, a local freight train. The situation will be made plain by the following extract from the petition for a writ of…
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- Lane Bros. v. SeakfordSupreme Court of Virginia · 1906
- Driver's Administrator v. Southern Railway Co.Supreme Court of Virginia · 1905
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