Tyler v. Sites' Adm'r
Supreme Court of Virginia
Error to judgment of circuit court of Rockingham county, rendered October 21st, 1890, in an action of trespass on the case wherein V. H. Lane, sheriff of said county, and as such, administrator of Thomas H. Sites, deceased, was plaintiff, and the plaintiff in error, S. F. Tyler, receiver of the Shenandoah Yalley Railroad Company, was defendant. .
1Opinion of the CourtRichardson, J.
The trial court certifies not the facts proved, but the evidence adduced at the trial. From an inspection of the evidence thus certified it is impossible to perceive why the court below did not abbreviate the matter by certifying the facts proved, as there certainly is no conflict of evidence as to any material question arising in the case. But, be this as it may, the material facts, as established by the plaintiff’s testimony alone, are these: Thomas H. Sites, the plaintiff’s intestate, who ivas a deaf-mute, was, on the 24th day of May, 1887, while walking on or very near the railroad track…
2Cases cited1 opinion
- N. & W. R. R. v. Harman's AdministratorSupreme Court of Virginia · 1887
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