Maher v. Harriman

These are appeals from a judgment of the Supreme Court of the District of Columbia; and as the appeals grew out of the same action, and have been heard together j they will be disposed of in one opinion.

The action was trespass vi et armis, brought by Florence J. Harriman, as plaintiff, 'against Raymond T. Baker, Delphine Dodge Baker, Wm. P. Lipscomb Company, Inc., a body corporate, J. H. Small & Sons, a body corporate, Logan Pingree, and Joseph P. Maher, as defendants.

The plaintiff’s amended declaration, upon which the proceedings in the court below were based, contained two counts, the first…