Christensen v. Surface Transportation Corp.

Plaintiff’s proof on the trial tended to show that he was a passenger on a bus of the defendant, a common carrier; that the bus was being driven on City Island Bridge at a speed of from thirty to forty miles an hour; that the pavement was wet; that the rate of speed permitted by city ordinance at that place was twenty miles an hour; that warning signs to slow down to twenty miles an hour were maintained at the *350approaches to the bridge, and that a collision occurred between the bus and another vehicle moving in the opposite direction. Plaintiff was injured.

Upon showing these things plaintiff…