Legal Opinion
Wiggins v. Capital Transit Company
District of Columbia Court of Appeals
Decided April 19, 1956No. 1763PublishedCited by 17 opinions
1Opinion of the Court
CAYTON, Acting Judge.
This was a suit for personal injuries sustained by a passenger in defendant’s bus. Verdict was directed for defendant, and plaintiff appeals.
Plaintiff, a 71-year-old woman, testified that after she boarded the bus she “went to step over the white line and before she could grasp the hand rail, the bus ‘started suddenly’ and threw her to the floor. * * * ” She was injured on the hand, head and back. A neighbor, who boarded the bus just ahead of plaintiff, testified that the bus started with a “little jerk,” and that she did not fall “because the bus was so crowded there was…
2Cases cited22 opinions
- Biehle v. FrazierSupreme Court of Missouri · 1950
- Birchall v. Capital Transit Co.District of Columbia Court of Appeals · 1943
- Capital Transit Co. v. JacksonCourt of Appeals for the D.C. Circuit · 1945
- Endicott v. Philadelphia Rapid Transit Co.Supreme Court of Pennsylvania · 1935
- Wilcoxen v. City of SeattleWashington Supreme Court · 1949
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3Cited by17 opinions
- Washington Metropolitan Area Transit Authority v. JonesDistrict of Columbia Court of Appeals · 1982
- Robinson v. Washington Metropolitan Area Transit AuthorityCourt of Appeals for the D.C. Circuit · 2014
- Pazmino v. Washington Metropolitan Area Transit AuthorityDistrict of Columbia Court of Appeals · 1994
- Robinson v. Washington Metropolitan Area Transit AuthorityDistrict Court, District of Columbia · 2013
- Robinson v. Washington Metropolitan Area Transit AuthorityDistrict Court, District of Columbia · 2012
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