Simpson v. Broadway-Manhattan Taxicab Corp.

This action was brought by Fannie Mae Simpson to recover damages from the Broadway-Manhattan Taxicab Corporation and Robert Barnes, Jr., on account of injuries, which she alleges were received in consequence of an attack made upon her by Robert Barnes, Jr., an employee of the Broadway-Manhattan Taxicab Corporation, a common carrier, when she was a paying passenger in one of the taxicabs of the defendant corporation which was being operated by Barnes.

The taxicab company, sometimes hereinafter referred to as defendant or the corporation, filed an answer and grounds of defense denying liability.…