Malzer v. Koll Transportation Co.

The opinion of the court was delivered by

Campbell, J.

Elsie Malzer, a passenger for hire, in the public conveyance of the defendant below, signified her desire to alight at Bergen and Woodlawn avenues, in Jersey City, and in compliance with her request the driver of the bus brought it to a stop, at a point in the highway so that the exit door was some feet from the curb and where there was a depression or slant in the surface of the roadway, toward a sewer basin. The lower step of the bus was so constructed as to be eleven inches above a level street pavement, but under the conditions existing…