Jones v. Virginian Railway Co.

LyNCH, Judge:

To a judgment in favor of the plaintiff the defendant obtained a writ of error. James W. Jones, the plaintiff’s son *668and intestate, was struck by the tender of a moving engine and killed in the yard's of the defendant company. He was a brakeman on a coal train drawn by engine 434 from Page to Princeton, where it arrived between three and four o’clock a. at. January 23, 1912. At the west end of the yard the train crew, having served sixteen consecutive hours, was necessarily relieved from further duty, and the yard crew took the train in charge, and, after placing the cars…