Smith v. Baltimore Transit Co.

This is an appeal by Elsie P. Smith, plaintiff, appellant, from a judgment for costs entered in favor of the Baltimore Transit Company and John William Dickel, defendants, appellees, as a result of the granting of a directed verdict in favor of the defendants in a suit by the plaintiff against the defendants.

Plaintiff, about 5 :45 P. M. on January 2, 1954, boarded a bus of the Transit Company at Howard and Redwood Streets in Baltimore on her way home from work. It had been snowing and sleeting continuously for a period of from eighteen to twenty hours prior to that time. There were at least…