Learned v. Peninsula Rapid Transit Co.

This is an appeal from a judgment in favor of plaintiff in an action for damages for injuries sustained by her in a collision between a motor-bus of the defendant, upon which she was a passenger, and a street-car of the municipal railroad of San Francisco. The jury returned a verdict in plaintiff’s favor for the sum of six thousand dollars, for which judgment was entered; but the court, upon defendant’s motion for a new trial, ordered that, unless the plaintiff should consent to a reduction of this amount to two thousand dollars, a new trial would be granted. The plaintiff consented to this…