Getz v. City of Detroit

(for affirmance). Plaintiff sued for personal injuries sustained as a passenger on 1 of defendant’s buses. A jury returned a verdict in her favor for $10,000. From judgment for defendant entered, non obstante veredicto, by the trial court, she appeals.

At time of the accident plaintiff was. 54 years of age, 5 feet and 4 inches tall, and weighed 2101 pounds. She was a healthy, able-bodied woman, who-performed hard work, as a printing press feeder, at which labor she stood on her feet allsthe time. She never had difficulty in doing that work. She had been boarding buses regularly for years and…