                                 CODE OF VIRGINIA

CONTRIBUTORY NEGLIGENCE NO BAR TO RECOVERY; VIOLATION OF SAFETY APPLIANCE ACTS
(§ 8.01-58)

In all actions brought against any such common carrier to recover damages for
personal injuries to any employee or when such injuries have resulted in his
death, the fact that such employee may have been guilty of contributory
negligence shall not bar a recovery, but the damages shall be diminished by the
jury in proportion to the amount of negligence attributable to such employee;
and no such employee, who may be injured or killed, shall be held to have been
guilty of contributory negligence in any case when the violation by such common
carrier of any statute enacted for the safety of employees contributed to the
injury or death of such employee.

HISTORY: Code 1950, § 8-642; 1954, c. 614; 1977, c. 617.