Isabelle v. Public Service Co.

On the night of October 27, 1942, Virginia Isabelle, hereinafter referred to as the plaintiff, alighted from a bus of the defendant at the corner of Beech Street and Cilley Road in Manchester, and in accordance with her custom, which was well known to the driver of the bus, started to walk east on Cilley Road. A few seconds later she was overtaken and run over by the same bus, which had made the turn into Cilley Road behind her.

The defendant does not seriously contend that its driver could not be found negligent, but insists that the plaintiff must be denied a recovery upon the ground of…