RANEY v. D. C. TRANSIT SYSTEM, INC.

No. 2643.

166 A.2d 261 (1960)

Vivien RANEY and Benjamin F. Raney, Appellants, v. D. C. TRANSIT SYSTEM, INC., Appellee.

Municipal Court of Appeals for the District of Columbia.

Decided December 14, 1960.

Rehearing Denied January 6, 1961.


Attorney(s) appearing for the Case

Louis Ginberg, Washington, D. C., for appellants.

Anthony E. Grimaldi, Washington, D. C., for appellee.

Before ROVER, Chief Judge, QUINN, Associate Judge, and CAYTON (Chief Judge, Retired) sitting by designation under Code § 11-776(b).


CAYTON, Acting Judge.

In this action against the transit company, plaintiff claimed damages of $3000, the jurisdictional limitation of the Municipal Court. Some months later and after pre-trial she moved for voluntary dismissal without prejudice in order to file an action in the United States District Court for a greater amount of damages. The motion recited that though at the time the action was filed her physician reported that her injury was not of a permanent...

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