Adams v. Capital Transit Co.

This is an appeal by the plaintiff who failed to recover against either of two defendants in a negligence action arising out of an accident which occurred when she was alighting from a streetcar and was pushed upon or in front of a taxi-cab by an unknown youth making a quick exit from the same car.

While there is a conflict in the evidence as to precise details, it appears from the record that the accident happened when the plaintiff, appellant here, in the company of a friend, was getting off defendant Capital Transit Company’s streetcar at 14th and Clifton Sts. N. W., on the evening of…