Legal Opinion

Tyler v. Mutual District Messenger Co.

Court of Appeals for the D.C. Circuit

Decided October 2, 1900No. 985Published

Hearing on an appeal by the defendant from a judgment of the Supreme Court of the District of Columbia upon the verdict of a jury in an action of assumpsit. The facts are sufficiently stated in the opinion.

1Opinion of the CourtChief Justice Alvey

This action was brought on the 13th day of December, *891893, and with the declaration was filed an account or hill of particulars, for work and service performed by the plaintiff for the defendant. The declaration alleges that the plaintiff is a corporation, incorporated by the law of the State of West Virginia, doing business in the District of Columbia; and that the defendant is indebted to it in the sum of $126.31, for messenger service rendered by the plaintiff to the defendant; for constructing a temporary burglar alarm by the plaintiff for the defendant; for rental of a burglar alarm…

2Cases cited10 opinions

  1. Conard v. Atlantic Ins. Co. of NYSupreme Court of the United States · 1828
  2. Philadelphia, Wilmington, & Baltimore Railroad v. QuigleySupreme Court of the United States · 1859
  3. Society for the Propagation of the Gospel in Foreign Parts v. Town of PawletSupreme Court of the United States · 1830
  4. Withers v. GreeneSupreme Court of the United States · 1850
  5. Yeaton v. Lynn Ex Rel. LylesSupreme Court of the United States · 1831

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