Doyle v. Bi-State Development Agency

SNYDER, Judge.

The defendant, Bi-State Development Agency, appeals from the trial court’s order granting plaintiff a new trial after a jury verdict for defendant in an action for personal injuries sustained by plaintiff when she fell while preparing to alight from defendant’s bus. The judgment is affirmed.

The trial court’s order granting a new trial was based upon the trial court’s conclusion that appellant’s converse instruction was erroneous because it did not correspond to the language of respondent’s verdict-directing instruction. The converse instruction used the undefined term…