Tyler v. Starke

Appellant brought this action in the District Court to recover damages for personal injuries sustained by her in the District of Columbia as the result of being struck by an automobile owned and driven by appel-lee. The accident occurred about one o’clock at night on the roadway of 11th Street, S. E., in the middle of the block between D Street and South Carolina Avenue. There was a directed verdict for the defendant.

At the trial appellant testified that she had walked north on the east side of 11th Street to a point opposite her home, located in the middle of the block on the other side of…