Corbitt v. Omaha Transit Co.

This is an action at law brought by Charles W. Corbitt in the district court for Douglas County, as plaintiff, against the Omaha & Council Bluffs Street Railway Company, now Omaha Transit Co., defendant, to recover damages for personal injuries sustained when he was in the act of crossing a street and was struck by a streetcar owned by the defendant and being operated by one of its employees.

The case was tried to a jury, resulting in a verdict in favor of the plaintiff and fixing the amount of his recovery in the sum of $23,807. The defendant filed a motion for judgment notwithstanding the…