Omaha Water Co. v. Schamel
Court of Appeals for the Eighth Circuit
In Error to the Circuit Court of the United States for the District of Nebraska.
1Opinion of the Court
VAN DEVANTER, Circuit Judge.
This was an action by an administrator, on behalf of the next of kin, to recover from the Omaha Water Company damages for the death of his intestate, Mrs. Annie Schamel, alleged to have been caused by the negligence of that company. The plaintiff obtained a verdict and judgment which the deh fendant seeks to have reversed because of errors said to have occurred upon the trial.
Mrs. Schamel and others were holding a committee meeting in a third-story room of a building in Omaha, called the "Patterson Block,” when h fire, originating in the basement, was quickly…
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- McGinn v. StateNebraska Supreme Court · 1895
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