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

No. 4504.

254 A.2d 402 (1969)

D. C. TRANSIT SYSTEM, INC., a corporation, Appellant, v. Narsis CARNEY, Appellee.

District of Columbia Court of Appeals.

Decided June 16, 1969.


Attorney(s) appearing for the Case

Wilmer S. Schantz, Jr., Washington, D. C., for appellant. Morton Berg, Washington, D. C., also entered an appearance for appellant.

Edward C. O'Connell and Louis M. Kaplan, Washington, D. C., for appellee.

Before KELLY, FICKLING and KERN, Associate Judges.


FICKLING, Associate Judge.

Appellant's motion for a directed verdict was denied, and the jury awarded appellee damages in the sum of $7,500 for injuries sustained while a passenger on a bus. Its motion for judgment n. o. v. was also denied and this appeal followed.

The facts are relatively simple and undisputed. Appellee boarded one of appellant's buses near the corner of 13th and Eye Streets, N.W. The bus pulled away from the bus stop and had just entered...

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