Legal Opinion
Best v. District of Columbia
Supreme Court of the United States
Decided March 5, 1934No. 477PublishedCited by 185 opinions
1Opinion of the CourtChief Justice Hughes
Petitioner’s intestate, a child five years of age, while playing on a wharf belonging to the District of Columbia, fell through a hole in the wharf and was drowned.. This action was for damages forlhe alleged negligence of the District. After a jury had been impaneled, an opening statement was made by plaintiff’s counsel and thereupon the court, on motion of the defendant and without taking testimony, directed a verdict in defendant’s favor upon the ground that no cause of action had been stated. The Court of Appeals affirmed the judgment, 62 App. D.C. 271; 66 F, (2d) 797, and this Court…
2Cases cited11 opinions
- Gunning v. CooleySupreme Court of the United States · 1930
- Railroad Co. v. StoutSupreme Court of the United States · 1874
- Oscanyan v. Arms Co.Supreme Court of the United States · 1881
- Union Pacific Railway Co. v. McDonaldSupreme Court of the United States · 1894
- Richmond & Danville Railroad v. PowersSupreme Court of the United States · 1893
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3Cited by185 opinions
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- Davignon v. ClemmeyCourt of Appeals for the First Circuit · 2003
- Banker v. McLaughlinTexas Supreme Court · 1948
- Firfer Et Ux. v. United StatesCourt of Appeals for the D.C. Circuit · 1953
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