Legal Opinion

Williams v. Lynchburg Traction & Light Co.

Supreme Court of Virginia

Decided June 11, 1925PublishedCited by 15 opinions

1Opinion of the Court

Prentis, P.,

delivered the opinion of the court.

This action grows out of a collision between a street ear of tbe defendant company with a Ford automobile (converted into a truck), which was crossing its track. The plaintiff’s intestate was a child less than four years of age. The administrator is her brother. Her father, John L. Williams, was driving ■the car, and came through an alleyway located at right angles to the ear track. The single track was on the west side of McKinley avenue, a county road, and it was necessary for the driver of the automobile to ■cross the rails in order to reach…

2Cases cited1 opinion

  1. Virginia Railway & Power Co. v. HillSupreme Court of Virginia · 1917

3Cited by15 opinions

  1. Price v. BurtonSupreme Court of Virginia · 1930
  2. Johnson v. CommonwealthCourt of Appeals of Virginia · 1995
  3. Stanley v. TomlinSupreme Court of Virginia · 1925
  4. Tugman v. Riverside & Dan River Cotton MillsSupreme Court of Virginia · 1926
  5. City of Danville v. HowardSupreme Court of Virginia · 1931

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