Beasley v. the Hudson Bus Transportation Co., Inc.

This is an appeal from a judgment of dismissal entered by the Hudson County Court at the close of the plaintiff's case in a death action.

Shortly after 9 P.M. on October 20, 1946, the defendant George R. Meyer was driving a north-bound bus of the defendant The Hudson Bus Transportation Company, Inc., along County Avenue, Secaucus. The area was described as "open country," the road was macadam, forty feet in width from curb to curb, and had a white center line. At the same time the decedent Connell Beasley was riding his motorcycle in a north-bound direction, carrying William Evtush as a…