Hendricks v. Virginia Electric & Power Co.

On March 10, 1932, the plaintiff was injured in a crossing accident. He has lost one leg and was otherwise hurt. In this action for damages he recovered a verdict for $12,500. That verdict the trial court set aside because of insufficient evidence and entered final judgment for the defendant.

From Tanner’s creek in the city of Norfolk to the Naval Base, about eight miles away, the defendant operates an electric stret car line on double tracks. It owns in fee a thirty-foot strip of land upon which they are laid. On each side is a paved roadway. All of these facilities of transportation go under…