Pierce v. St. Louis Public Service Co.

ANDERSON, Judge.

This is an action for damages for personal injuries sustained by plaintiff when he fell while alighting from a bus of the defendant St. Louis Public Service Company. The petition alleged that as he was preparing to leave said bus, he stepped on a foreign substance on the exit step of said bus, and as a result thereof he was caused to fall to the pavement and sustain serious and permanent injuries. The jury returned a verdict in plaintiff’s favor in the sum of $3,500. Defendant has appealed from the judgment on this verdict.

The accident occurred on June 26, 1961, between 1:00…