Lyons v. Allen
Court of Appeals for the D.C. Circuit
Hearing on ail appeal by the defendants from a judgment on verdict in an action to recover damages for personal injuries. The facts are sufficiently stated in the opinion:
1Opinion of the CourtChief Justice Alvey
delivei’ed the opinion of the Court:
This action was brought to recover for personal injuries sustained by the plaintiff, Eugene A. Aljeix, occasioned, as he alleges, by the negligence of the defendants, John E. Lyons and Thomas H. Lyons, the present appellants. The defendants wei’e contractors for the construction of a sewer in that part of Washington City known as Georgetown, and the plaintiff was employed as a common laboi’er on the work ; and in the course of his employment and while acting under the immediate dh’ection of one of the defendants, some of the timbers of a scaffold over which…
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- Girard v. St. Louis Car Wheel Co.Supreme Court of Missouri · 1894
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