Anna May Beck v. The Washington, Virginia & Maryland Coach Company, Inc., a Corporation

The appellants, two elderly ladies, were riding at a moderate rate of speed on Arlington Boulevard, a dual highway, on a bright, clear afternoon in July, 1951. Anna May Beck was a passenger in her 1937 automobile, which was being driven for her by her sister Xenia.

A car ahead of them pulled to the left and went around a bus, which had lawfully stopped to pick up and discharge passengers. But the Beck automobile crashed against the rear of the bus and the two ladies sustained injuries. At the conclusion of their evidence in this suit against the bus company, the trial judge directed a verdict…