Chesapeake & Ohio Railway Co. v. Harris
Supreme Court of Virginia
Error to a judgment of the Circuit Court of Fluvanna county, in an action of trespass on the case, wherein the defendant in error was the plaintiff, and the plaintiff in error was the defendant.
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Error to a judgment of the Circuit Court of Fluvanna county, in an action of trespass on the case, wherein the defendant in error was the plaintiff, and the plaintiff in error was the defendant. The amount of the verdict was $9,000. The chief injury to the plaintiff was to his spine, which caused great physical pain, as well as mental depression and despondency, and the attending physician testified “that I think this injury is of such a nature that it is highly probable he will never recover from it.” The other evidence sufficiently appears in the opinion of the court. [*The map on opposite…
1Opinion of the CourtBuchanan, J.
About 8 :30 o’clock on the evening of April 13, 1903, Julian O. Harris was injured by falling into a culvert,- or ditch, while making his way from a passenger train of the Chesapeake & Ohio Railway Company to its station at Bremo, in the county of Fluvanna, and this action was brought to recover damages therefor, on the ground that his injuries were caused by the negligence of the defendant company.
It appears that the plaintiff had, on the morning of that day, gone from Hardware, a station on the defendant’s road west of Bremo, to Richmond, on an excursion train. That
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