                                 CODE OF VIRGINIA

BOARD OF APPRAISERS TO APPRAISE INJURED OR KILLED LIVESTOCK; DUTY OF APPRAISERS
(§ 56-436)

Whenever any horses, cattle, or other livestock are killed or injured, or other
property damaged, by the cars or locomotives upon any railroad, it shall be
lawful for the owner thereof or for the railroad company to have the property
examined and the damages assessed by a board of appraisers in the following
manner:
		Either party, his agent or attorney, may appoint one person as the appraiser
in his behalf, and notify the other party; such notice, when intended for the
railroad company, shall be sufficient if given by certified mail to the
registered agent of such railroad. Then the party so notified shall appoint an
appraiser on his behalf, and the two appraisers shall select a third appraiser.
These three persons shall constitute a board of appraisers to examine and
appraise the property so injured or damaged, and shall examine the horses or
other livestock so killed, or injured, or the other property so damaged, and
affix a value upon the same if killed, or assess the damages to the same if
injured, and make a written report, carefully describing the horses, cattle, or
other livestock or property, stating whether killed or injured, and also setting
out the valuation or assessment of damages made by them. Such report shall be
returned to the office of the clerk of the circuit court of the county or city
in which such livestock was killed or injured, who shall file and preserve the
same.

HISTORY: Code 1919, § 3994; 1994, c. 352.