Chesapeake & Ohio Railway Co. v. Howard
Supreme Court of the United States
ERROR TO THE COURT OF APPEALS OF THE DISTRICT OF COLUMBIA. The railroad company seeks by this writ of error to reverse a judgment obtained against it at a trial term of the Supreme Court of' the District of Columbia in favor of defendants in error, which judgment has been affirmed by the Court of Appeals of the District.
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ERROR TO THE COURT OF APPEALS OF THE DISTRICT OF COLUMBIA. The railroad company seeks by this writ of error to reverse a judgment obtained against it at a trial term of the Supreme Court of' the District of Columbia in favor of defendants in error, which judgment has been affirmed by the Court of Appeals of the District. The defendants in error are husband and wife, and the action was brought by them to recover damages alleged to have been sustained by the Avife because the car in Avhich she was riding ran off the track Avhile forming part of a train in transit from Louisville, Kentucky, to…
1Opinion of the CourtJustice Peckham
The injuries sustained by Mrs. Howard, as shown by the evi dence, are very serious, and undoubtedly permanent. The accident happened at night, the car in which she was sleeping left the rail and went over an embankment about-thirty feet high, and was broken to pieces. She was released from the car and taken to a cottage, by the wayside, and subsequently was given a berth in a sleeping car and brought to Washington.
On the trial she was sworn as a witness, and testified that the disease was evidently progressing, because she could not sit up as long; that she could not walk any distance; could…
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- National Bank v. GrahamSupreme Court of the United States · 1880
- Nims v. Mount Hermon Boys' SchoolMassachusetts Supreme Judicial Court · 1893
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