Capital Traction Co. v. Wathen

This is an appeal from a judgment of the supreme court of the District of Columbia upon a verdict for the plaintiff, Susan Wathen, appellee here, awarding her damages for injuries sustained by her in alighting from a street railway car of the defendant, the Capital Traction Company, appellant here, owing to an alleged concealed danger, of the presence of which the plaintiff alleges that the defendant did not warn her, although in duty bound so to do.

The declaration alleges in substance that on the 27th day of July, 1907, the plaintiff was a passenger for hire on a street railway ear operated…