Pugh v. Washington Railway & Electric Co.

This is a suit by the appellant against the appellee based on the claim, as alleged in the declaration that, while “she was a passenger on a car operated by the defendant she was insulted by indecent remarks and gestures from other persons on the said car, and her person assaulted by one of the other persons upon the said car.” It is alleged that the “conductor in charge of said car, before and during and while the said assault was in the act of being committed, was requested and urged by the plaintiff and a male acquaintance, who took her under his protection, to cause the said assault to…