Crowell v. Padolsky

The opinion of the court was delivered by

White, J.

The plaintiff Mrs. Crowell was injured on Avon avenue, Newark, by being backed into by a jitney automobile behind which she was passing while it was standing still at the curb. She and another witness took notice of, and testified to, its New Jersey license number and also to its municipal license number, which were the numbers of defendant’s auto-bus, thus justifying a finding of ownership in the defendant and thereby establishing a presumption of fact that at 'the time of the accident the bus was being operated on the public street by the…