Virginian Railway Co. v. Bacon
Supreme Court of Virginia
1Opinion of the CourtHolt, J.
The plaintiff was injured in a crossing accident and for that injury has recovered a judgment for $5,000.00, which judgment is now before us on a writ of error.
This accident occurred east of Victoria and west of Ken-bridge. The highway along which the plaintiff traveled crossed the railroad a't an angle of about fifty degrees, which angle of approach, roughly speaking, was held for about two hundred feet, after which the county road bore to the east, and for somewhere about six hundred feet its approach was around thirty degrees, when it bore still further to the east and was more nearly…
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