Dick v. Virginia Electric & Power Co.

Mary Bernice Dick was the plaintiff in the trial court and the Virginia Electric and Power Company, a corporation, was the defendant, and they will hereafter be referred to in this relation.

The defendant owns and operates a double track electric railway line from and partly through the city of Norfolk, Virginia, to the Naval Operating Base, a distance of about seven miles. This line runs for some distance over Hampton boulevard. The defendant’s right of way is separated from the automobile roads on either side, in the vicinity of the place of the accident, by a ditch. The right of way, which…