Legal Opinion

Browne v. Davidson Transportation & Storage Co.

District of Columbia Court of Appeals

Decided July 9, 1952No. 1216Published

1Opinion of the Court

HOOD, Associate Judge.

In a nonjury case plaintiff-appellee recovered a judgment for damages to its tractor-trailer, resulting from a collision between it and a truck operated by defendant-appellant. Claiming no error in the finding that he was negligent appellant bases this appeal on the claim that the trial court was in error in finding that appellee’s driver was not contributorily negligent.

Under Municipal Court Civil Rule 52(b) in actions tried without a jury the court may, hut is not required to, “find the facts specially and state separately its conclusions of law thereon At the close of…

2Cases cited1 opinion

  1. Gatton v. CullinsCourt of Appeals for the D.C. Circuit · 1943

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