Colbert v. Callaham & Sons
Supreme Court of Virginia
Error to a judgment of the Circuit Court of the city of Lynchburg in a proceeding by motion for a judgment for damages. Judgment for plaintiff. Plaintiff assigns error.
1Opinion of the CourtPrentis, J.
The plaintiff in error instituted his action against M. W. *477Callaham & Sons, a copartnership, alleging that he had suffered serious personal injury through the negligence of the defendants, growing out of a collision with a motor truck of the defendants while the plaintiff was riding a motorcycle. The defendants denied their own negligence and pleaded the contributory negligence of the plaintiff. There was a jury trial upon the issues thus raised, and a verdict in,favor of the plaintiff for $50.
[1] The only error assigned is that the damages are grossly inadequate.
The defendants moved to…
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