Collier v. St. Louis Public Service Company

HOUSER, Commissioner.

Action for damages for personal injuries arising out of an intersectional collision between plaintiff’s automobile and defendant’s bus. The negligent act submitted to the jury was defendant’s violation of a city ordinance by failing to stop the bus before entering an intersection in the face of an electric traffic control signal which changed from amber to red as defendant’s bus was approaching and before it reached the intersection. The pleaded defense of contributory negligence submitted to the jury was plaintiff’s act of starting up and driving his automobile into the…