Homa v. Wilkes-Barre Transit Corp.

Opinion by

Mb. Justice Musmanno,

Mrs. Helen Homa was injured when she slipped on an icy pavement at a point other than a regular car stop, deposited there' by the operator of the bus on which she had been a passenger. She and her husband brought a suit in trespass against the. Wilkes-Barre Transit Corporation, owner of the bus, but at the trial they were nonsuited. The court en banc affirmed the nonsuit And the plaintiff appealed.

A nonsuit is one of the most drastic. procedures in the civil branch ‘of the law, bringing, as it does, a lawsuit to an abrupt termination, and thus depriving the…