MEYERS v. CAPITAL TRANSIT CO.

No. 7880.

126 F.2d 231 (1942)

MEYERS v. CAPITAL TRANSIT CO.

United States Court of Appeals for the District of Columbia.

Decided February 24, 1942.


Attorney(s) appearing for the Case

Mr. Isadore H. Halpern, of Washington, D. C., for appellant.

Mr. H. W. Kelly, with whom Messrs. S. R. Bowen and R. E. Lee Goff were on the brief, all of Washington, D. C., for appellee.

Before GRONER, Chief Justice, and MILLER and EDGERTON, Associate Justices.


GRONER, C. J.

Irene N. Meyers, appellant, sued the Capital Transit Company for damages for personal injury claimed to have been sustained in stepping off the front of one of the company's street cars onto the roadway at the intersection of the Branchville turnpike with Rhode Island Avenue, in Maryland. There was a verdict and judgment for defendant. On this appeal a number of errors are assigned, but we think we only need notice one. Mrs. Meyers testified that when...

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