Bumblauskas v. South Suburban Safeway Lines, Inc.

South Suburban Safeway Lines appeals from a $3,000 judgment entered, after a nonjury trial, in favor of Mary Ann Bumblauskas, a fourteen-year-old high school student, who was injured in getting off a bus operated by the defendant.

The accident happened in the afternoon as the plaintiff was on her way home from school. The bus traveled east on 127th Street to Throop Street, Chicago, where it was to make a left turn to let off passengers on the east side of Throop.

The bus was a standard model with the driver at the left front, a door to his right and a two-step stairwell leading to the door with…