Legal Opinion
Hoggard v. City of Richmond
Supreme Court of Virginia
Decided January 9, 1939No. Record No. 2004PublishedCited by 93 opinions
1Opinion of the CourtHudgins, J.
*147This is an action to recover $5,000, alleged to be due plaintiff for injuries sustained when her left hand struck a barbed-wire fence while bathing in Shield’s Lake, a swimming pool owned and operated by the city of Richmond. In the first count of the notice of motion, defendant is charged with non-feasance—that is, negligence in maintaining the resort. In the second count, defendant is charged with misfeasance in erecting a barbed-wire fence above and under the waters of the lake, thereby creating a dangerous place to which plaintiff and other inhabitants of the city were invited. The trial…
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