Norfolk & Western Railway Co. v. Briggs
Supreme Court of Virginia
Error to a judgment of the Circuit Court of Warren county, rendered in an action of trespass on the case, wherein the defendant in error was the plaintiff, and the plaintiff in error was the defendant.
1Opinion of the Court
Cardwell, J.,
delivered the opixxion of the court.
This action was brought by the defendant ixi error, Bobert L. Bx'iggs, to recover from the plaintiff in error, the Norfolk & AYesterix Bailway Company, damages sustaixied by reason of the loss of a stock of merchandise by fire, which, it is alleged, was communicated to the building containing the merchandise in question from an engine of the plaintiff in error on the 13th of November, 1901.
The building was situated oix the east side of the raffway tracks at Ashby station, about thirty-three feet from the main line, and there was within fifteen…
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