VA · jury_instructions
Va. Model Jury Instr. Civ. No. 20.005
Duty of a Delivering Carrier to Employee of Consignee
A railroad that is the delivering carrier owes a duty to an employee of the company who
unloads the freight car to use ordinary care to inspect the freight car to see if it is reasonably safe
to be unloaded, and a duty to repair or give warning of any dangerous condition discoverable by
the inspection.
If the railroad fails to perform either of these duties, then it is negligent.
History
Virginia Model Jury Instructions – Civil, Release 26, April 2026. The unannotated set, posted by the Supreme Court of Virginia at vacourts.gov; the book states that it is made available with the permission of the publisher, Matthew Bender & Company, Inc.
Provenance
- Source
- vacourts.gov
- Retrieved
- 2026-10-11
- Edition
- civ-2026-04-01
- Content hash
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