Routt v. Bi-State Transit Development Agency

WOLFE, Judge.

This is an action for damages arising out of personal injuries which the plain*203tiff suffered. She was a passenger in a bus operated by the defendant corporation. The defendant’s driver ran the bus into a depressed sewer inlet causing a violent jar. This caused the plaintiff’s head to strike a window of the bus by which she was sitting, and inflicted the injuries for which she seeks recovery in damages. There was a verdict and judgment for the plaintiff in the sum of $15,000 and the defendant prosecutes this appeal.

The occurrence giving rise to this action happened on August 7,…