SMITH v. BALTIMORE TRANSIT CO.

[No. 63, October Term, 1956.]

211 Md. 529 (1957)

128 A.2d 413

SMITH v. BALTIMORE TRANSIT COMPANY

Court of Appeals of Maryland.

Decided January 8, 1957.


Attorney(s) appearing for the Case

H. Emslie Parks and Z. Townsend Parks, Jr., for appellant.

John E. Boerner, with whom were James J. Lindsay and Patrick A. O'Doherty on the brief, for appellee.

The cause was argued before COLLINS, HENDERSON, HAMMOND and PRESCOTT, JJ., and MACGILL, J., Associate Judge of the Fifth Judicial Circuit, specially assigned.


COLLINS, J., delivered the opinion of the Court.

The appellant, plaintiff, Mrs. Carolyn Smith, on February 25, 1954, boarded a bus of the Baltimore Transit Co., appellee, defendant, in Baltimore at Saratoga Street, which was north-bound on Cathedral Street. She paid her fare and seated herself on the horizontal rear seat which ran all the way across the bus. She was seated directly opposite and at the end of the aisle running between the seats. There was no seat directly...

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