Collins v. New Orleans Public Service, Inc.

REDMANN, Chief Judge.

Plaintiff appeals from the dismissal on the merits of her suit for injuries from an emergency stop of a bus on which she was a passenger. Plaintiff argues that the defendant bus company did not exculpate itself. Considering the primacy of the trial court in credibility evaluations and factual inferences in general, Canter v. Koehring Co., 283 So.2d 716 (La.1973), we disagree and therefore affirm.

Evidently the trial court believed the bus driver’s testimony (largely corroborated by a person waiting for the bus) that, having just started up from a stop, with a rush-hour…