Mendez v. Manhattan & Bronx Surface Transit Operating Authority

Judgment, Supreme Court, Bronx County, in favor of defendant, entered March 8, 1976, after jury trial, reversed, on the law, vacated and a new trial directed, with $60 costs and disbursements of this appeal to abide the event. Plaintiff was a bus passenger, who claimed that he was injured when the bus on which he traveled, operated at an excessive rate of speed, failed to negotiate a curve properly so that his elbow, which had been resting on a window sill, was ejected and caused to come into contact with a pillar of an elevated railroad structure. The case was hotly contested, different…