Bolton v. City of Detroit

Buth Bolton brought suit for injuries sustained when she fell to the ground while alighting from one of defendant’s buses. The trial court granted defendant’s motion for directed verdict at the close of plaintiffs’ 1 proofs, and the plaintiffs have taken this appeal.

Mrs. Bolton testified that the bus had stopped, the door had opened and that she had started down the steps when the bus “jerked”, “shook”, “or made some kind of jog or something”, or “a lunge or something”, or “moved”, causing her to lose her balance, whereupon she fell off the bus and sustained injury. Her testimony was…