Braswell v. Virginia Electric & Power Co.

Plaintiff’s decedent was killed when a motorcycle on which he rode came into collision with one of the defendant’s street cars. His administrator has recovered a verdict for $2,500. That verdict the trial court set aside. Its action is challenged and the case is now before us on a writ of error.

The accident occurred in South Richmond on Hull street, just before 8 o’clock on December 13, 1930. Hull street runs north and south and numbered streets, whose numbers increase to the south, cross it at right angles. Cars pass in each direction on a single track which is not in the center of Hull…