Ballard v. Pacific Greyhound Lines

The plaintiff had a jury’s verdict of $10,000 in an action for personal injuries claimed to have been suffered when a Pacific Greyhound bus on which she was a paid passenger overturned after striking an automobile parked on the road. The trial court granted the defendant’s motion for a new trial. The order specified that it was granted on the ground of the insufficiency of the evidence to justify the verdict. The plaintiff appealed.

The bus was being operated by the defendant’s employee Hobert on Highway 101 between San Francisco and San Luis Obispo. Hobert had been employed as driver by the…