Kaufman v. Baltimore Transit Co.

This is an appeal from a judgment on a verdict directed for defendant at the close of plaintiff’s evidence in a negligence case. Plaintiff, a passenger on defendant’s street car, was injured by the fall of another passenger, a Mrs. Vandeveer, into plaintiff’s lap about six o’clock on Saturday afternoon, December 4, 1948. The verdict was directed on the ground that there was no evidence legally sufficient to show that plaintiff’s injuries, or the fall of the other passenger, was caused by negligence of defendant.

Plaintiff, then nineteen, lived and still lives with her mother in Baltimore, and…