Kimball & Fink v. Friend's Adm' r
Supreme Court of Virginia
Error to a judgment of the Hustings Court of the city of Roanoke, rendered March 22, 1897, in an action of trespass on the case, wherein the defendant in error was the plaintiff, and the plaintiffs in error were the defendants. The evidence sufficiently appears in the opinion of the court.
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Error to a judgment of the Hustings Court of the city of Roanoke, rendered March 22, 1897, in an action of trespass on the case, wherein the defendant in error was the plaintiff, and the plaintiffs in error were the defendants. The evidence sufficiently appears in the opinion of the court. After the evidence was concluded, the court, on motion of the plaintiff, instructed the jury as follows, to wit: Plaintiff’s Instruction No. 1. “The jury are instructed that the general rule that a person in passing over a railroad track at a public crossing must use his senses as to sight is subject to…
1Opinion of the CourtBuchanan, J.
This is a writ of error to a judgment against the receivers of the Norfolk and Western Railroad Company, rendered in an action to recover damages for the negligent killing of the plaintiff’s intestate.
The grounds relied on for a reversal of the judgment are that the jury were misdirected, and that their verdict is contrary to the law and the evidence.
The defendants moved the court to give five instructions, all of which were refused, and five others, given in lieu thereof by *134the court. This action of the court was excepted to, but it is admitted in the petition for the writ of error that the…
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