Paultanis v. Nutt

This is a suit for personal injuries. Plaintiff appeals from judgment for defendants upon a directed verdict.

On November 3, 1950, plaintiff, then 68 years of age, was returning from work about 5 p.m. on a streetcar owned and operated by defendant department of street railways. While in the act of alighting therefrom plaintiff was struck by a motor vehicle driven by defendant Eleanor Nutt. Plaintiff suffered bruises, contusions and lacerations and a fracture of his right leg.

Plaintiff testified that as the streetcar on which he was a passenger was brought to a stop he proceeded to leave the…