HOLLAND v. CAPITAL TRANSIT COMPANY

No. 1629.

114 A.2d 426 (1955)

Anna Marie HOLLAND, Appellant, v. CAPITAL TRANSIT COMPANY, a corporation, Appellee.

Municipal Court of Appeals for the District of Columbia.

Decided May 24, 1955.


Attorney(s) appearing for the Case

D. Carroll McGean, Washington, D. C., for appellant.

John P. Arness, Washington, D. C., with whom Francis L. Casey, Jr., Washington, D. C., was on the brief, for appellee.

Before CAYTON, Chief Judge, and HOOD and QUINN, Associate Judges.


CAYTON, Chief Judge.

We are asked to review an order of the trial court refusing to reinstate a case which had been dismissed for want of prosecution. The suit charged that plaintiff was injured because of the sudden stopping of a street car on which she was a passenger. The incident allegedly happened more than eight and a half years ago. Plaintiff filed her suit in the United States District Court on October 11, 1950, one day before her claim would have been barred...

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