Sutton v. Public Service Interstate Transp. Co.

CLARK, Circuit Judge.

The principal assignment of error in this appeal goes to the correctness of the District Court’s charge on the law of contributory negligence in New Jersey.

Plaintiff, a toll collector on the George Washington Bridge over the Hudson River, was standing on a curb about eight and three-quarter inches wide in front of the door of another toll collector’s booth, procuring some change, when a bus owned by defendant arrived opposite the booth. Plaintiff reached into the bus to take the toll from the driver and then resumed her position on the curb. As the bus drove away, its…