Virginia & S. W. Ry. Co. v. Hawk
Court of Appeals for the Sixth Circuit
In Error to the Circuit Court of the United States for the Eastern District of Tennessee.
1Opinion of the Court
COCHRAN, District Judge.
This is an action brought by the defendant in error against the plaintiff in error to recover damages for the alleged wrongful death of the former’s intestate, caused by one of defendant’s trains. It resulted in a verdict and judgment for $1,000. But one ruling of the lower court is assigned as error, and that is its refusal at the close of all the evidence to give peremptory instruction to find for the defendant.
The action is based on subdivision 4, § 1574, Shannon’s Code of Tennessee, which requires that, “when any person, animal, or other obstruction appears upon…
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