Jackson v. Capital Transit Co.

MILLER, Associate Justice.

This appeal is from a judgment entered upon a directed verdict in favor of appellee (defendant below), in an action brought by appellant, as administratrix of the estate of Franklin C. Jackson, to recover damages suffered by reason of his death. The accident, out of which the alleged cause of action arose, occurred about noon, January 9, 1935, when decedent, while at tempting to cross Fourteenth Street between L Street and Thomas Circle, N. W., in the City of Washington, D. C, was struck by a street car owned and operated by appellee.

As appellant’s action is founded…