Chap. 393.—An ACT to amend and re-enact section 2900 of the Code of Virginia,
relating to damages from violation of a statute, so as to provide what form of
action may be brought, and to provide that such damages and the penalty for
violation of the statute may be recovered in one and the same action in certain
cases.

Approved March 28, 1902.

1. Be it enacted by the general assembly of Virginia, That section
twenty-nine hundred of the Code of Virginia be amended and re-enacted
so as to read as follows:

§ 2900. Damages from violation of a statute, and remedy therefor,
and the penalty.—Any person injured by the violation of any statute
may recover from the offender such damages as he may sustain by reason
of the violation, although a penalty or forfeiture for such violation be
thereby imposed, unless the same be expressly mentioned to be in lieu of
such damages. And the damages so sustained, together with any penalty
or forfeiture imposed for the violation of the statute, may be recovered
in a single action of trespass on the case upon proper counts when the
same person is entitled to both damages and penalty: provided, that
nothing herein contained shall affect the existing statutes of limitation
applicable to the foregoing causes of action respectively.

2. This act shall be in force from its passage.