Virginia Electric & Power Co. v. Bowers

Benjamin F. Goodson filed suit in the court below against Virginia Electric and Power Company and Francis X. Thompson, jointly, to recover damages for personal injuries sustained when a street car on which he was a passenger, and which was being operated by the Virginia Electric and Power Company, collided with an automobile driven by Thompson. Goodson alleged that the collision was proximately due to the negligence of both the operator of the street car and the driver of the automobile. By appropriate pleadings both defendants denied liability.

When the case came on for trial before a jury…