Chesapeake & Ohio Railway Co. v. Jacobs

The writ of error brings under review the proceedings in the trial of an action instituted to recover damages for the wrongful death of Mary Catherine Ennis, an infant fourteen years of age, killed by C. & 0. passenger train No. 5, on the grade crossing at Calverton, Fauquier county. The trial court entered judgment for $3,000 on the verdict of the jury.

On June 21,1932, about 3:30 P. M., Mary Ennis and her three-year-old niece were passengers in a Chevrolet coupe, operated by her sister-in-law, Mrs. Norma Ennis, traveling eastwardly along the highway at Calverton, over a grade crossing, where…