Blaine v. C. & O. R. R.
West Virginia Supreme Court
On a writ of error to two judgments, of the circuit court of Kanawha county, rendered on the twelfth and thirteenth days of December, 1873, respéctively, in a suit tKen' pending in .said.court, in which William C. Blaine, was plaintiff, and the Chesapeake and Ohio Railroad Company, was defendant. The facts of the case are fully set forth in the opinion of the Court. Hon. Joseph Smith, Judge of said circuit court, presided at the trial below. .
1Opinion of the Court
Raymond, President :
This is an action of trespass on the case brought by the plaintiff against the defendant, in the circuit court of the county of Kanawha, in the year 1873. The declaration contains two counts. The first count, after alleging that the defendant is “ a corporate body,” and that it has, been summoned, etc., alleges that “ on the first day of October. 1872, at the county of Kanawha, aforesaid, the said plaintiff owned and was possessed of a horse of great value, to-wit: of the value of five hundred dollars; and the said defendant was, also, then and there the owner, and…
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