Ratcliffe v. McDonald's Administrator
Supreme Court of Virginia
Error to a judgment of the Circuit Court of Rockbridge county, in a proceeding by motion for judgment for damages. Judgment for plaintiff. Defendants assign error.
1Opinion of the Court
Whittle, P.,
delivered the opinion of the court.
J. L. McDonald, administrator of his son, Ash Mankin McDonald, deceased, brought this notice against J. K. Ratcliffe and “Mrs. J. K. Ratcliffe” to recover $10,000 damages for the alleged negligent killing of plaintiff’s intestate (a child about four years old) in driving their automobile against the person of intestate and crushing his body between the car and the steps to the store porch of the defendant, J. K. Ratcliffe, fronting on a public street in the town of Goshen.
The jury returned a verdict for the plaintiff against both defendants, upon…
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