Virginian-pilot. (Norfolk, Va.) 1898-1911, 1899-10-12
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The Seaboard Air Line scored vic
tory Tuesday in the case <of the Ice
Manufacturing Company against the
Raleigh and Augusta Air Line Railroad
Company. the result of which is TO get
the case before the Supreme Court on
appeal
The Supreme Court of North Carolina
granted the prayer OF the defendant for
a writ of cetiorari. holding that a party
not guilty of lachcs himself is entitled
to relief against tho neglect of his at
| torncy.
Fad the court decided adversely to
the railroad the Raleigh and Augusta
would have had to pay the award of
damages for $4,000 granted the plain
TIFF by Wake Superior Court.
Tho case will conc up before the
supreme Court on appeal when the APP
peals from tho Fourth District are
argued next week.
| George L. Davis. chief clerk of the
chesapeake and Ohio and Big Four
systems in Richmond, has been pro-
NOTED to travelling freight agent of the
Biueridge Dispatch, of the Big -Four,
with Headquarters at Cincinnati, sue
ceedinE J. r. Rowland, who goes TO
New York. The change went into effect
yesterday, but Mr.. Davis will not go
west until to-day. j. II. Graves. chief
clerk OF the Chesapeake and Ohio Mt
/ this city, has been promoted to sue
coed Mr.. Davis there. a number of
Iother changes have been made in the
| Chesapeake and Ohio in Richmond.
The citizens of Rowan and Cabarrus
counties N. c., living between Gold Hill
ana Mount Pleasant, In Cabarrus, have
made a novel proposition to the South
ern railway people, which in all pro-
papliity viii be accepted. They have
offered 10 give tho land and grade n
railroad between these two points if the
Southern Will lay the track and equip it.
The Southern now has The matter under
ladviscmcnt and tits thought will accept
tho proposition Tho length of the line.
IL built. will be some eight or nine
miles and will pass through the finest
agricultural section of Cabarrus county.
At the annual stockholders and direc-
tors meeting yesterday or the Newport
News and Old Point Railway and Elec-
trio Company w. ]. Payne was re-
detected president and Alexander brown
of Baltimore, was elected 10 the dircc-
tory Among other directors elected
We're Calvin circuit ana l.. l.. Stearnes,
who are identified with the Peninsula
Hallway Company. which started in
opposition to the old line. and was re-
lccntly bought out by Alexander Brown
& Son. President Payne stated after
the meeting that the two railroads will
De run under separate names and or
nc I'eIllUSulil Inc VIII he
in operation by the end of November,
he says.
Mr.. ]. IT. Graves, OF Norfolk, has
| been appointed To succeed Mr.. George
E. Davis rs chief clerk IN the offices of
| the Chesapeake and Ohio railroad here.
Mr. Graves, 1t is understood, will ar
rive here Sunday from Norfolk where
he is chief clerk TO Mr.. John Upshur.
| 1,
| day.
Twcnty-siX wagons and teams with
the entire outfit of Messrs. Gibson g.
O'Leane, contractors, who have been at
work on the Richmond. Petersburg and
Carolina railroad. at Mcrcdithvillc,
Brunswick county, passed through Pc
tersburg at noon to-day en- route to
Chester, Chesterfield county to begin
work on the Richmond end of the line
OF the road.
Rails have been laid on the road from
Butterworth, Dinwiddie county, to
within four miles OF the Mcherrin river
and most OF the road has been graded,
where the rails have mot been laid to
now to me pushed on the bridges to
be built over the Meherrin and Roam
olle rivers.
President Spencer. of the Southern
Railway Company, testified before the
Industrial Commission at Washington
yesterday. He announced himself as
opposed to discrimination on the part
OF the railroads 10 shippers and said
he believed the remedy was to be found
in the enforcement of the clause of the
Interstate Commerce law requiring the
publication of all rates. TIe also ad-
Nocated the abolition of the pass sys-
tenn.
Chairman 'iiyson como. Hncn.
Hon. ]. Taylor Ellyson, chairman of