Looney v. Metropolitan Railroad
Court of Appeals for the D.C. Circuit
Hearing on an appeal by the plaintiff from a judgment of the Supreme Court of the District of Columbia upon the verdict of a jury directed by the court in an action to recover damages for the death of the plaintiff’s intestate. The Court in the opinion stated the case as follows: This is a suit at common law instituted in the supreme court of the District of Columbia, under the statute to recover compensation for death resulting from alleged negligence of the defendants.
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Hearing on an appeal by the plaintiff from a judgment of the Supreme Court of the District of Columbia upon the verdict of a jury directed by the court in an action to recover damages for the death of the plaintiff’s intestate. The Court in the opinion stated the case as follows: This is a suit at common law instituted in the supreme court of the District of Columbia, under the statute to recover compensation for death resulting from alleged negligence of the defendants. The appellee, the Metropolitan Railroad Company, is, or at the time of the accident here complained of, which was July 28,…
1Opinion of the CourtJustice Morris
There was much discussion in this case, both in briefs and oral arguments, over the effect and bearing of certain acts of Congress upon the powers of the two railroad companies here sued; and there was an effort by the appellant to show that the car of the Metropolitan Railroad Company, in connection with which Looney lost his life, was unlawfully on the track of the Washington & Great Tails Railway Company. But this discussion seems to us wholly irrelevant. The act of Congress of *514June 5, 1900 (31 Stat. at L. 270, chap. 718), authorized these two railroad companies, and six other urban and…
2Cited by1 opinion
- Samuel Fisher, Mrs. Samuel Fisher v. Capital Transit CompanyCourt of Appeals for the D.C. Circuit · 1957