American Locomotive Co. v. Whitlock
Supreme Court of Virginia
Error to a judgment of the Circuit Court of the city of Richmond in an action of trespass on the case. Judgment for the plaintiff. Defendants assign error.
1Opinion of the CourtBuchanan, J.
This is an action to recover damages for personal injuries caused, as alleged, hy the negligence of the defendants (plaintiffs in error) in whose service the plaintiff was employed as a carpenter.
The defendants operate a manufacturing establishment in the eounty of Henrico, consisting of a number of large shops. One of them, known as the “shovel shop,” in which the plaintiff was injured, had been erected a short time before the accident, but had not been entirely completed. ' This shop was a structure 340 feet in length and 100 feet in width, divided into three aisles running the entire…
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- Gay's Administrator v. Southern Railway Co.Supreme Court of Virginia · 1903
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