SOUTHERN RY. CO. v. CARTWRIGHT

No. 6304.

77 F.2d 546 (1935)

SOUTHERN RY. CO. v. CARTWRIGHT.

United States Court of Appeals for the District of Columbia.

Decided April 15, 1935.

Rehearing Denied May 10, 1935.


Attorney(s) appearing for the Case

George E. Hamilton, John J. Hamilton, George E. Hamilton, Jr., and Henry R. Cower, all of Washington, D. C., for appellant.

Henry Stearman, of Washington, D. C., for appellee.

Before MARTIN, Chief Justice, and HITZ and GRONER, Associate Justices.


HITZ, Associate Justice.

This appeal by the Southern Railway Company, a corporation, is from a decree of the Supreme Court of the District of Columbia, reversing an order of the United States Employees' Compensation Commission.

On January 13, 1933, Thomas J. Cartwright, a clerical employee of the railway company, while at work in one of its offices, fell, struck his head against a desk, and died as a result.

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