Legal Opinion

Lawler v. Capital City Life Ins.

Court of Appeals for the D.C. Circuit

Decided December 18, 1933No. 5808PublishedCited by 14 opinions

1Opinion of the Court

HITZ, Associate Justice.

This appeal is brought by the plaintiff below from a judgment upon a verdict directed for the defendant at the conclusion of plaintiff’s case in a personal injury action based on alleged negligence in the maintenance of a rail guarding a stairway.

On June 29, 1909, the Capital City Life Insurance Company, defendant below and ap-pellee here, bought from the Operative Plasterers’ & Cement Finishers’ International Association, Local No. 9'6, hereafter called the union, the house numbered 507 E Street Northwest, in Washington, D. C., theretofore wholly occupied by the union…

2Cases cited9 opinions

  1. Bowe v. HunkingMassachusetts Supreme Judicial Court · 1883
  2. Doyle v. Union Pacific Railway Co.Supreme Court of the United States · 1893
  3. Kearines v. CullenMassachusetts Supreme Judicial Court · 1903
  4. Altemus v. TalmadgeCourt of Appeals for the D.C. Circuit · 1932
  5. Runyon v. City of Los AngelesCalifornia Court of Appeal · 1919

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3Cited by14 opinions

  1. Lemle v. BreedenHawaii Supreme Court · 1969
  2. Hogsett v. HannaNew Mexico Supreme Court · 1936
  3. Bowles v. Mahoney. District of Columbia v. MahoneyCourt of Appeals for the D.C. Circuit · 1953
  4. Coggins v. GregorioCourt of Appeals for the Tenth Circuit · 1938
  5. Beall v. EversonDistrict of Columbia Court of Appeals · 1943

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