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CHES. & OHIO RY. v. NIXON

No. 306.

271 U.S. 218 (1926)

46 S.Ct. 495

70 L.Ed. 914

CHESAPEAKE AND OHIO RAILWAY COMPANY v. NIXON, ADMINISTRATRIX.

Supreme Court of United States.

Decided May 24, 1926.

Attorney(s) appearing for the Case

Messrs. S.H. Williams and Randolph Harrison, with whom Mr. A.R. Long was on the brief, for petitioner.

Mr. Duncan Drysdale, with whom Mr. Aubrey E. Strode was on the brief, for respondent.

MR. JUSTICE HOLMES delivered the opinion of the Court.

This is a suit to recover damages for the death of the plaintiff's husband, the intestate, from the Railroad Company upon whose tracks the death occurred. The plaintiff, (the respondent here,) obtained a verdict and judgment in the trial Court and upon a writ of error the judgment was affirmed by the Supreme Court of Appeals of Virginia. 140 Va. 351. As the recovery was...

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