Washington Terminal Co. v. Sampson

BARBER, Acting Associate Justice.

This case comes here on a writ of error to the municipal court for the District of Columbia, in which Sampson, the plaintiff below, defendant in error here, recovered judgment on the verdict of a jury in his favor against the Washington Terminal Company, a common carrier by railroad in the District.

The main question at issue is whether or not the defense known as assumption of risk is available in this cáse. The discussion, therefore, is first directed to the question as to whether the statute commonly known as the federal Employers’ Eiability Act of June 11,…