WILSON v. SPENCER

No. 1880.

127 A.2d 840 (1956)

Julia WILSON, Appellant, v. Melvin SPENCER, Appellee.

Municipal Court of Appeals for the District of Columbia.

Decided December 20, 1956.


Attorney(s) appearing for the Case

Verginald L. Dolphin, Washington, D. C., with whom Carlisle H. Pratt, Washington, D. C., was on the brief, for appellant.

James W. Cobb, Washington, D. C., for appellee.

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


HOOD, Associate Judge.

The question here is whether a showing by plaintiff that while standing at a street intersection she was struck and injured by a hubcap which flew off a wheel of a passing automobile owned and operated by defendant, makes out a case for submission to a jury on the issue of defendant's negligence. There was no explanation by either plaintiff or defendant as to the cause of the hubcap becoming detached, although defendant did testify that some...

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