Supreme Court of Virginia April 4, 1889 (N. Y., P. & N. R. R. v. Cooper)

lead-opinion

Lacy, J.,

delivered the opinion of the court.

This case, so far as it is necessary to be stated, is as follows: The Portsmouth, a steam-tug, belonging to, and in the employment of, the plaintiff in error, with a railroad barge in tow, started from the Norfolk Southern railroad wharf in Berkley, a suburb of Norfolk, about the hour of 8:45 P. M.