Grant v. Baton Rouge Bus Co.

This is a suit based on an accident sustained by plaintiff while alighting from a bus owned and operated by defendant in which she had been a paid passenger. She alleges that the accident was caused by the negligence of defendant's bus operator, and claims $2,500 for physical injuries, shock, mental pain and anguish, $45 for loss of wages, and $8 for medical expense, as the results of the accident.

The plaintiff, a colored woman, was a paid passenger on one of the motor buses belonging to and operated by the defendant, and which bus was travelling east on North Boulevard. Before the bus…