DOIDGE v. CUNARD S. S. CO.

Nos. 2073, 2074.

19 F.2d 500 (1927)

DOIDGE v. CUNARD S. S. CO., Limited (two cases).

Circuit Court of Appeals, First Circuit.

May 17, 1927.


Attorney(s) appearing for the Case

Claude B. Cross, of Boston, Mass. (Sherman L. Whipple and Lothrop Withington, both of Boston, Mass., on the brief), for plaintiffs in error.

Arthur J. Santry, of Boston, Mass. (Putnam, Bell, Dutch & Santry, of Boston, Mass., on the brief), for defendant in error.

Before BINGHAM, JOHNSON, and ANDERSON, Circuit Judges.


JOHNSON, Circuit Judge.

These are two actions of tort. In the first the plaintiff, as the administrator of the estate of May Doidge, seeks to recover damages for her conscious suffering and death; and in the second, Kathleen Doidge, an infant, by her father as next friend, seeks to recover damages for illness alleged to have been caused by the defendant.

When the cases came on for trial the court below directed the jury to return a verdict for the defendant...

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