Sykes v. Langley Cabs, Inc.

Roy L. Sykes, Administrator of the estate of Harold J. Isleib, deceased, seeks to recover damages for the wrongful death of the decedent. He alleges that defendant J. H. Butler Griffin, agent and driver for defendant Langley Cabs, Incorporated, was engaged to transport Isleib from a point in the City of Hampton to Fass Brothers’ pier in the said city; and that Griffin negligently drove the cab onto said pier at night under adverse conditions of weather and discharged decedent therefrom at a time and place which proximately resulted in his death by drowning. Defendants deny liability.

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