Myles v. Los Angeles Railway Corp.

WOOD (W. J.), J.

Plaintiff has appealed from an order of the trial court granting defendant’s motion for a new trial after a jury had returned a verdict in favor of plaintiff in the sum of $5,000. The new trial was granted on the ground of the insufficiency of the evidence to justify the verdict. On this appeal plaintiff contends that the court abused its discretion in granting the motion.

Plaintiff testified that on September 3, 1941, accompanied by two friends, she attempted to board a southbound streetcar operated by defendant at the intersection of Twelfth Street and Central Avenue in Los…