Alexander v. Matteucci

This action was to recover damages for injuries sustained by Julia Alexander, the plaintiff, as a result of the alleged negligence of the two defendants. The jury found for the plaintiff against both defendants for $35,000. Both defendants obtained rules to show cause why the verdict should not be aside.

Defendant Matteucci was the owner of a jitney bus operated between Perth Amboy and Metuchen. Plaintiff was a passenger on the bus and was about to alight at a corner, at a point where the defendant Public Service Railway Company operated in the highway a trolley line with a single track, the…