Hines v. Garrett
Supreme Court of Virginia
Error to a judgment of the Circuit Court of Fairfax county in an action of trespass on the case. Judgment for plaintiff. Defendant assigns error.
1Opinion of the Court
Kelly, P.,
delivered the opinion of the court.
The plaintiff is a young girl, between eighteen and nineteen years of age, and the object of the suit is to hold the defendant, director general of railroads, liable in damages for two acts of rape upon her person, committed by two men shortly after she had been, as she alleges, negligently required to leave the defendant’s train in a dangerous and unprotected place.
The evidence was in some material respects conflicting, but substantially the following facts were either conclusively established or supported by evidence which would have justified…
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