Claiborne v. Chesapeake & O. Ry. Co.

DeNT, President:

George Claiborne sued the Chesapeake & Ohio Railway Company in the circuit court of Greenbrier County for false imprisonment, and recovered a judgment for four hundred dollars. Defendant appeals.

The first error assigned is as to the court permitting the evidence of William B. McWhorter, R.' B. Jennings, W. P. Camp, J. T. Leslie, and A. M. Nelson, as to the previous good character of the plaintiff, to go to the jury, as his character was not attacked in any manner by the defendant. The plaintiff insists that this evidence was competent, for the reason the .defendant “had really…