Bess v. Chesapeake & Ohio Railroad
West Virginia Supreme Court
cited 8 Kan. 647 ; Id. 659 ; 42 2ÑT. W. Rep. 237; Sedg. Lead. Cas. Meas. Bam. 738; 52 Ill. 183; 28 W. Va. 733; Bish. Ron Con. Law § 1051, 1054; 12 8. E. Rep. 554; 15 W. Va. 628; 86 Pa. St. 418 ; 98 Pa. St. 498; 70 Pa. St. 119 ; 91 Pa. St. 256 ; 59 la. 428 ; 47 Wis. 144; Thomp. Trials § 2692. cited 4 Am. & Eng. R’y Cas. 562; 15 Wall. 401; 1 Shear. & Redf. Reg. (4th Ed.) §§ 71, 73 ; Id. § 98 note 4; 40 Ilun 605; 112 Pa.
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cited 8 Kan. 647 ; Id. 659 ; 42 2ÑT. W. Rep. 237; Sedg. Lead. Cas. Meas. Bam. 738; 52 Ill. 183; 28 W. Va. 733; Bish. Ron Con. Law § 1051, 1054; 12 8. E. Rep. 554; 15 W. Va. 628; 86 Pa. St. 418 ; 98 Pa. St. 498; 70 Pa. St. 119 ; 91 Pa. St. 256 ; 59 la. 428 ; 47 Wis. 144; Thomp. Trials § 2692. cited 4 Am. & Eng. R’y Cas. 562; 15 Wall. 401; 1 Shear. & Redf. Reg. (4th Ed.) §§ 71, 73 ; Id. § 98 note 4; 40 Ilun 605; 112 Pa. St. 551; 55 la. 496; 18 Ohio St, 399; 24 Ohio St.' 670 ; 12 S. E. Rep. 348; 11 Gratt. 697; 4 Min. Inst, p’t 1. 757; 64 Miss. 584; 31 Kan. 197; 61 la. 452; 18 Ill. 418 ; 39 Ilun…
1Opinion of the Court
Brannon, Judge :
This is a writ of error taken by the Chesapeake & Ohio Railroad Company to a judgment in favor of James Walter *493Bess, an infant suing by a next friend, against said company for twelve thousand dollars. On the 23 January, 1889, there were a number of freight ears standing on a side track in the City of Huntington, and said Bess, a boy nine years of age, got upon one of these cars, and an engine hitched to the train and while moving these cars Bess in getting off received an injury by the wheels mashing his right foot, which necessitated its amputation, and for this injury this…
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