Goffner v. Yellow Cab Co.

Weir, J.,

The jury decided this case in favor of defendant, Yellow Cab Company, and *676plaintiff, Miss Audrey Goffner, now Mrs. Smith, is seeking a new trial.

It all began in the most prosaic way with Miss Goffner as a passenger in one of defendant’s taxis which was stopped at a traffic light and was struck in the rear by an inattentive motorist named Fusaro, but here terminates all resemblance to the usual colorless rear-end situation, because this lawsuit is not for a cervical sprain, but for slander, and it came about through an extraordinary subsequent mishap of Charles ¡Skomski, who was an…