McKinney v. Public Service Interstate Transportation Co.

The opinion of the court was delivered by

Case, J.

The single question is whether the court erred in dismissing the complaint after plaintiff had closed her case on negligence.

Plaintiff’s intestate, Robert H. McKinney, had been a passenger on defendant’s bus. At about one o’clock in the morning of Hovember 27, 1947, the bus stopped on White Horse Pike at the intersection with Beechwood Avenue, Oaklyn, Hew Jersey. The summary of what transpired is stated in appellant’s brief thus:

“After the last passenger was observed getting off the bus, the driver pulled away from the stop and in a matter of…