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NORFOLK AND WESTERN RAILWAY CO. v. SYKES

106 S.E.2d 734 (1959)

200 Va. 541

NORFOLK AND WESTERN RAILWAY COMPANY, a Corporation, and H. W. Knight, v. Roy L. SYKES, Administrator of the Estate of Lucille Rhodes.

Supreme Court of Appeals of Virginia.

Rehearing Denied March 11, 1959.

Attorney(s) appearing for the Case

Thomas R. McNamara, Norfolk (Leigh D. Williams, Williams, Cocke, Worrell & Kelly, Norfolk, on the brief), for plaintiffs in error.

Henry E. Howell, Jr., Norfolk (Guy E. Daugherty, Jett, Sykes & Howell, Norfolk, on the brief), for defendant in error.

Before EGGLESTON, C. J., and SPRATLEY, BUCHANAN, MILLER, WHITTLE, SNEAD and I'ANSON, JJ.

SPRATLEY, Justice.

This writ of error brings under review a judgment for $15,000 entered on the verdict of a jury against the Norfolk and Western Railway Company and its engineer, H. W. Knight, for the alleged negligent killing of Mrs. Lucille Rhodes, who was a passenger in an automobile when it was struck by a train of the defendant Company at a public highway crossing in Norfolk County, near the City of Portsmouth. The...

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