Dominguez v. Southwestern Greyhound Lines, Inc.

MABRY, Justice.

Plaintiff-appellee Dominguez brought suit and, upon trial t'o jury, recovered from defendant-appellant judgment in the sum of $5,000 for personal injuries allegedly suffered when she stumbled over or at a step at the entrance to appellant’s bus station at Santa Fe. The negligence charged against appellant was that of maintaining a step one and three-fourths inches in, height at the immediate front door entrance to the station. Appellant-denied the allegation of negligence and pleaded contributory negligence on the part of the appellee.

The appellee, a woman sixty-four yeárs of…