Johnson v. Fishbein

Appellant, Mary Johnson, plaintiff below, was struck by an automobile driven by the appellee, Cassius Fishbein, defendant below, in the late afternoon hours of November 29, 1968. She received injuries to her buttocks, flank, and abdomen, as well as a fractured pelvis. The accident occurred about 5:00 to 5:30 in the afternoon. It was cold and misty with intermittent drizzling rain. Darkness was falling and some automobiles had their headlights turned on. The rush hour traffic was heavy.

Shortly before being struck, the plaintiff had alighted from a city bus at a bus stop on Wilson Avenue in the…