Williamson v. Pacific Greyhound Lines

This is an appeal from a judgment on a verdict in defendant’s favor in an action for damages for personal injuries. On a prior appeal this court reversed a judgment of nonsuit (78 Cal.App.2d 482 [177 P.2d 977]). The present appeal is based solely on errors in instructions at the second trial.

Appellant was a passenger on a bus of respondent going from Napa to San Francisco. On boarding the bus she took an aisle seat four or five seats behind the driver and on his side of the bus. Appellant alleged that she was injured by a heavy suitcase, not her own, which fell from a baggage rack above the…