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OTT v. WASHINGTON GAS LIGHT CO.

Civ. A. No. 2691-58.

205 F.Supp. 815 (1962)

William R. OTT, Jr., William R. Ott, Plaintiffs, v. WASHINGTON GAS LIGHT CO., J. H. De Veau & Son, Inc., Defendants.

United States District Court District of Columbia.

June 4, 1962.

Attorney(s) appearing for the Case

Arthur J. Hilland, James E. Hogan and J. Robert Carey, Washington, D. C., for plaintiffs.

Richard W. Galiher and Edward Gallagher, Washington, D. C., for defendant Washington Gas Light Co.

Paul R. Connolly, Jr. and James J. Cromwell, Washington, D. C., for defendant J. H. De Veau & Son, Inc.

HOLTZOFF, District Judge.

This is a motion for a directed verdict made by the two defendants at the close of the plaintiffs' case on the issue of liability. The action is brought to recover damages for personal injuries sustained by a little boy three and a half years old, by being burned by an open flame of a flare pot set out in the street as a warning of the presence of a barricade and excavation. The suit was filed in behalf of the infant by his father as next...

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