WESTERN UNION TELEGRAPH CO. v. WILLIAMSON

No. 2023.

15 F.2d 972 (1926)

WESTERN UNION TELEGRAPH CO. v. WILLIAMSON.

Circuit Court of Appeals, First Circuit.

December 1, 1926.


Attorney(s) appearing for the Case

Arthur P. Hardy, of Boston, Mass. (Francis Raymond Stark and Overton Harris, both of New York City, on the brief), for plaintiff in error.

Julian C. Woodman, of Boston, Mass. (Patrick J. Madigan, of Boston, Mass., on the brief), for defendant in error.

Before BINGHAM, JOHNSON, and ANDERSON, Circuit Judges.


ANDERSON, Circuit Judge.

This action in tort for personal injuries was brought by the plaintiff in the superior court for Suffolk county, and removed by the Telegraph Company to the court below. The trial resulted in a verdict of $10,000 for the plaintiff, reduced by the court, on motion for a new trial, to $7,500. The case comes here on assignments of error, which sift down to the contention that there was no case for the...

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