Hoffman v. Philadelphia Transportation Co.

Opinion by

Me. Justice Horace Stern,

On a November night at about nine o’clock, the wife-plaintiff was a passenger on a bus which was. being operated by defendant company in a northerly direction on Adams Avenue in Philadelphia. She signalled the operator of her intention to alight at Ramona Avenue, but when the bus stopped there, according to her testimony, it did so at a distance of from 6 to 8 feet from the Adams Avenue curb.* As she stepped down onto the asphalt paving of the cartway her foot went into a hole or depression which she described as being about 2 *214feet long, 8 or 10 inches wide…