Jaxon v. City of Detroit

Jury trial of Della Jaxon’s negligence action and her husband’s derivative suit in Wayne county circuit court resulted in jury verdicts favor*724able to them. Judgments entered thereon following the trial court’s denial of defendant’s motion for judgment notwithstanding the verdicts or in the alternative for a new trial. Defendant’s appeal raises 4 questions for review, two of which will be discussed in this opinion.

May 21, 1961, Della Jaxon was a passenger on defendant’s northbound Woodward avenue bus. When she alighted from the rear door at the bus stop at Davison, she fell and was injured.…