Legal Opinion
Sisson v. Southern Ry. Co.
Court of Appeals for the D.C. Circuit
Decided December 4, 1933No. 5831PublishedCited by 16 opinions
1Opinion of the Court
GRONER, Associate Justice.
On the trial of this ease at the conclusion of all the evidence the lower court directed a verdict for defendant. ' The action was brought to recover for personal injuries sustained by plaintiff when an automobile he was driving collided with a freight ear, which, as a part of a standing train of defendant, was obstructing a public highway near the town of Manassas in Virginia.
The declaration charged that it was the duty of the railway “not to obstruct said public highway so as to prevent the free and safe passage of automobiles over said highway and across the said…
2Cases cited9 opinions
- Philadelphia & Reading Railroad v. DillonSupreme Court of Delaware · 1921
- Gilman v. Central Vermont Railway Co.Supreme Court of Vermont · 1919
- Trask v. Boston & Maine RailroadMassachusetts Supreme Judicial Court · 1914
- Cleveland, Cincinnati, Chicago & St. Louis Railway Co. v. GillespieIndiana Court of Appeals · 1930
- Washington & Old Dominion Railway Co. v. Zell's AdministratorSupreme Court of Virginia · 1915
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3Cited by16 opinions
- Peri v. L.A. Junction Ry.California Supreme Court · 1943
- Commissioner of Internal Revenue v. Mildred Irene SiegelCourt of Appeals for the Ninth Circuit · 1957
- Southern Ry. Co. v. LambertSupreme Court of Alabama · 1935
- Atchison, T. & SF Ry. Co. v. BallardCourt of Appeals for the Fifth Circuit · 1940
- Raymond G. Cahill v. The New York, New Haven & Hartford Railroad CompanyCourt of Appeals for the Second Circuit · 1955
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