Washington Railway & Electric Co. v. Scala

This case is before us on writ of error to the Court of Appeals of the District of Columbia, and we shall refer to the parties as they appeared in the trial court, the defendant in error as plaintiff and the plaintiff in error as defendant.

On July 8,1913, the plaintiff’s decedent was a conductor in the employ of the defendant, a common carrier of passengers by an electric railroad, with termini as hereinafter described, and when standing or moving along the “running or stepping board” of an open summer car, in the evening after dark, his bódy in some manner struck against one of the poles…