D.C. TRANSIT SYSTEM, INC. v. SMITH

No. 2738.

173 A.2d 216 (1961)

D. C. TRANSIT SYSTEM, INC., Appellant, v. Beulah Diggs SMITH, Appellee.

Municipal Court of Appeals for the District of Columbia.

Decided July 20, 1961.


Attorney(s) appearing for the Case

Anthony E. Grimaldi, Washington, D. C., for appellant.

Harold F. Golding, Washington, D. C., for appellee.

Before HOOD and QUINN, Associate Judges, and CAYTON (Chief Judge, Retired) sitting by designation under Code § 11-776(b).


HOOD, Associate Judge.

This appeal is from a judgment on a jury verdict in favor of a passenger on a bus for personal injuries suffered when she slipped and fell in alighting from the bus. The appeal questions the sufficiency of the evidence to sustain the verdict. The question was properly reserved by motion for directed verdict at the close of the evidence and by motion for judgment n. o. v.

There is no dispute that appellee was a passenger on the bus and...

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