Penny v. New Orleans Public Service, Inc.

BEER, Judge.

This is a damage suit by plaintiff-appellant, Mrs. Lucinda Penny, claiming negligence of defendant-appellee, New Orleans Public Service, Inc. (hereafter, NOPSI) in operating the bus on which she was a fare paying passenger. The trial court granted judgment in favor of NOPSI, dismissing her suit. From that judgment, she prosecutes this appeal.

Mrs. Penny testified that she boarded the bus at Broadway and Claiborne and had given the driver her transfer when the bus abruptly accelerated causing her to fall and sustain injuries to her left knee and back. She did not have chance to…