Mahone v. Birmingham Electric Co.

SIMPSON, Justice.

Appellant sued appellee for personal injuries alleged to have been sustained at a time when appellant, a passenger for hire, was alighting from appellee’s bus. Upon the trial below the jury returned a verdict in favor of the defendant and appellant’s motion for a new trial having been overruled, he brings this appeal.

In the early stages of the trial certain witnesses for the appellant testified that the bus ran over his hand. The appellant’s medical expert, Dr. Nicholson, testified that appellant suffered only a break of the metacarpal bone, i. e., the one proximal to the…