Bellows v. City & County of San Francisco

Plaintiff sued for personal injuries claimed to have been sustained while she was a passenger on a streetcar of the municipal railway. The jury returned a verdict for defendant, and after the denial of a new trial plaintiff appealed from the judgment.

On March 4, 1947, plaintiff, then aged 69, boarded a northbound Bryant Street car at the southeast corner of 20th and Bryant Streets in San Francisco. At that intersection there is an offset or jog in Bryant Street, and to sidle around it the tracks curved toward the west in what the motorman called a “snake turn” and then straightened out again…