C. & O. Railroad v. Lee
Supreme Court of Virginia
Error to judgment of circuit court of Warwick county, rendered December 20th, 1886, in an action of trespass on the case, wherein Parker Lee was plaintiff and the Chesapeake & Ohio railroad company was defendant. Verdict and judgment being against the defendant company, it brought the case here on writ of error and supersedeas.
1Opinion of the CourtLacy, J.
This was an action of trespass on the case for injuries to the person by the defendant in error against the plaintiff in error. The defendant in error was an employee of the plaintiff in error, engaged in uncoupling, weighing, and unloading coal-cars on the coal-pier of the railway company at Rewport Rews. At the trial it was proved, as is shown by the certificate of facts in the case, that the plaintiff, Lee, was engaged on the 3d of May, 1884, about his business, under and in obedience to the orders of his superior, the foreman of the coal pier, when the pier-engine ran the train against…
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