Coleman v. Public Service Co-Ordinated Transport

The plaintiff, a Western Union messenger boy, on tiie evening of December 3d, 1936, was riding his bicycle on West Front street, Plainfield, on his way to Dunellen. The boy claimed to have been struck by the defendant’s bus. Some of the witnesses for the defendant testified that the boy was hitching on to the right side of the bus at about the middle, when he fell and suffered serious injury. The principal ground urged for reversal is that the trial judge improperly instructed the jury as follows: “If you find that any witness has varied in his or her testimony and has told conflicting…