MONTGOMERY v. VIRGINIA STAGE LINES, INC.

No. 10254.

191 F.2d 770 (1951)

MONTGOMERY v. VIRGINIA STAGE LINES, Inc.

United States Court of Appeals District of Columbia Circuit.

Decided June 28, 1951.


Attorney(s) appearing for the Case

Messrs. T. Bruce Fuller, Washington, D. C., and Robert H. McNeill, Washington, D. C., for appellant.

Mr. Joseph S. McCarthy, Washington, D. C., with whom Mr. Wilbert McInerney, Washington, D. C., was on the brief, for appellee.

Before WILBUR K. MILLER, PROCTOR and FAHY, Circuit Judges.


FAHY, Circuit Judge.

Appellant was a passenger in a bus of the appellee, a common carrier. She sued in the District Court to recover for injuries alleged to have been caused by her suitcase falling upon her from the rack above her. The evidence at the trial discloses that she had boarded the bus in Washington and that the accident occurred at a point in Virginia some 170 miles beyond. There is a dispute as to whether she or the operator of the vehicle, defendant's...

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