Gray v. City of Seattle

This is an appeal from a judgment based on a verdict of the jury for eight thousand dollars for personal injuries sustained by the plaintiff below (respondent here), when he fell and broke his leg on a bus operated by the appellant.

The most favorable evidence which the jury could believe showed that the respondent, who was suffering from Paget’s disease, which affected the bone in his leg in the vicinity of a fracture sustained many years ago while playing baseball, had for several weeks been taking treatments from a doctor for his condition. Prior to the day in question, he had taken the…