Wiest v. Twin City Motor Bus Co.

Frank T. Gallagher, Justice.

Appeal from an order of the district court denying defendant’s motion for judgment notwithstanding the verdict or a new trial.

Plaintiff, a housewife, brought this action for damages in district court for injuries claimed to have been sustained by her while riding as a passenger with her daughter on defendant’s bus. The accident occurred shortly after 10 a. m. on November 7, 1917, on highway No. 7 near Excelsior, Minnesota. Highway No. 7 is a four-lane, black-top-surfaced paved highway, with a six-foot shoulder elevated from the road surface six to eight inches.

Plain…