Legal Opinion
District of Columbia v. Leys
Court of Appeals for the D.C. Circuit
Decided June 27, 1932No. 5536PublishedCited by 16 opinions
1Opinion of the Court
HITZ, Associate Justice.
These two appeals are taken by the District of Columbia, a municipal corporation, defendant below, from judgments on verdicts for the appellees, who were-plaintiffs below.
The actions were brought by a husband and wife for damages because of personal injuries sustained by the plaintiff wife through a fall on a sidewalk in the city,of Washington alleged to have been negligently maintained by the District of Columbia.
The two plaintiffs testified that at about 6:30 p. m. on January 17,1926', they alighted from a street car at Pirst and B streets Southeast, intending to…
2Cases cited5 opinions
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- Wright v. the Lessee of HollingsworthSupreme Court of the United States · 1828
- Calvert v. CarterCourt of Appeals of Maryland · 1861
- Lincoln v. Virginia Portland Cement Co.Court of Appeals for the D.C. Circuit · 1919
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