Legal Opinion

Meloon v. Davis

Court of Appeals for the First Circuit

Decided February 13, 1923No. 1558Published

1Opinion

On Rehearing.

BINGHAM, Circuit Judge.

This case is now before us on an application for rehearing. In the court below the jury were instructed in part as follows:

“Now they [the plaintiff, a boy, and other children] being there [on the car] with the invitation, with the knowledge — with the consent of the' motorman who was acting within the scope of his general authority, the situation raised a certain obligation in respect to the exercise of care, and they being there under the circumstances which have been described and being there upon the invitation and with the knowledge of the motorman, he…

2Cases cited48 opinions

  1. Philadelphia & Reading Railroad v. DerbySupreme Court of the United States · 1853
  2. The Steamboat New World v. KingSupreme Court of the United States · 1854
  3. Dudley v. Northampton Street Railway Co.Massachusetts Supreme Judicial Court · 1909
  4. Southern Pacific Co. v. SchuylerSupreme Court of the United States · 1913
  5. Chase v. New York Central & Hudson River RailroadMassachusetts Supreme Judicial Court · 1911

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