Finney v. Capital Transit Co.

FAHY, Circuit Judge.

Appellant, plaintiff below in a personal injury action, appeals from an adverse judgment. The principal question is whether the trial court erred in refusing on request to instruct on the doctrine of the last clear chance.

Appellant, while riding a motorcycle along the southern side of Pennsylvania Avenue in an easterly direction, began to make a left hand turn onto 2hst Street, N. W. There was testimony that he stopped in the middle of the streetcar tracks awaiting passage of westbound traffic. A streetcar of appellee, approaching in an easterly direction, collided with…