COATES v. POTOMAC ELECTRIC POWER CO.

Civ. No. 1099-49.

95 F.Supp. 779 (1951)

COATES v. POTOMAC ELECTRIC POWER CO. (WASHINGTON GAS LIGHT CO., Third-Party Defendant).

United States District Court District of Columbia.

February 12, 1951.


Attorney(s) appearing for the Case

H. Wise Kelly, Washington, D. C., for third-party plaintiff.

John J. Wilson, Philip S. Peyser, Jo V. Morgan, Jr., and W. E. Gallagher, all of Washington, D. C., for third-party defendant.


KEECH, District Judge.

This case is before the court on the motion of Washington Gas Light Company, third-party defendant, for summary judgment dismissing the third-party complaint filed by the original defendant, Potomac Electric Power Company, as third-party plaintiff.

Briefly stated, the facts of the case (which are not disputed by the parties) are: Plaintiff Coates, an employee of Washington Gas Light Company, was severely burned when a crane of the Gas...

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