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WASHINGTON & MT. VERNON RY. v. DOWNEY

No. 144.

236 U.S. 190 (1915)

WASHINGTON, ALEXANDRIA AND MT. VERNON RAILWAY COMPANY v. DOWNEY.

Supreme Court of United States.

Decided February 23, 1915.

Attorney(s) appearing for the Case

Mr. John S. Barbour, with whom Mr. John C. Gittings, Mr. Basil D. Boteler and Mr. Douglass S. Mackall were on the brief, for plaintiff in error.

Mr. Edmund Burke, with whom Mr. Leo P. Harlow was on the brief, for defendant in error.

MR. CHIEF JUSTICE WHITE delivered the opinion of the court.

The plaintiff in error, a Virginia corporation whom we shall speak of as the Company, operates a trolley line from Washington to Mt. Vernon in Virginia. The defendant in error, Downey, was employed by the Company as a trolley man and on November 29, 1907, was working on a train of two cars, a motor car and a trailer car, moving from Mt. Vernon to Washington. Downey was on the rear platform of the motor car...

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