Chesapeake and Ohio Railway Company v. Hartwell

Riley, Judge:

These two actions of trespass on the case were instituted in the Circuit Court of Kanawha County, and were consolidated by an order of that court.

In the first action The Chesapeake and Ohio Railway Company, a corporation, sought to recover $1,683.02 for property damage to one of its passenger trains, being designated in the record as a first-class train, in a collision between the train and an automobile owned and driven by the defendant, Irene Tabor Hartwell, which was stalled across the tracks of the railway company to the west of but near a public railway grade crossing in…