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TYRRELL v. DISTRICT OF COLUMBIA

No. 54.

243 U.S. 1 (1917)

37 S.Ct. 361

61 L.Ed. 557

TYRRELL, ADMINISTRATRIX OF TYRRELL, v. DISTRICT OF COLUMBIA.

Supreme Court of United States.

Decided March 6, 1917.

Attorney(s) appearing for the Case

Mr. Levi H. David and Mr. Alexander Wolf for petitioner.

Mr. Percival H. Marshall and Mr. Conrad H. Syme for respondent.

MR. CHIEF JUSTICE WHITE delivered the opinion of the court.

We state only so much of the case as is essential to an understanding of the disposition which we are constrained to make of it.

The action was commenced in May, 1912, by the petitioner as administratrix of the estate of her husband to recover from the District of Columbia as a municipal corporation, damages suffered as the result of his wrongful death in September, 1911. Briefly, it was alleged that...

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