Chesapeake & Ohio Railway Co. v. Gayle
Supreme Court of Virginia
Error to a judgment of the Circuit Court of the city of Williamsburg and county of James City in an action of trespass on the case.
1Opinion of the CourtPrentis, J.
A train of the Chesapeake and Ohio Railway Company, hereafter called the company, struck an automobile belonging to the defendant in error, hereafter called the plaintiff, at a crossing not far from the city of Williamsburg, on the public concrete road leading from Penniman to Williams-burg. This action followed, in which there was a verdict and judgment in favor of the plaintiff, of which the company is complaining.
[1] The railway track is straight for about two miles east of the crossing, while the county road, as it approaches the railway tracks from the east, runs in the same general…
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