The appellant, Mrs. Eleanor Howard, sued the appellee, Capital Transit Company, in the District Court of the United States for the District of Columbia to recover damages for injuries sustained when she was struck by a streetcar. The jurors decided against her and she appeals, on the ground that the trial court erroneously refused to give them four instructions which she offered.
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