Best v. District of Columbia

Supreme Court of the United States · Decided 1934-03-05

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*413 Me. Chief Justice Hughes delivered the opinion of the Court. Petitioner’s intestate, a child five years of age, while playing on a wharf belonging to the District of Columbia, fell through a hole in the wharf and was drowned.. This action was for damages forlhe alleged negligence…

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