Jackson v. Forwood

A pedestrian plaintiff, in a suit for personal injuries against the operator and the owner of a taxicab, appeals from a judgment n. o. v., entered after a jury had disagreed. The facts in the case are fully set out in appellant’s brief, and as this statement is accepted by the appellees, we quote the parts of it pertinent to the issue before us: “On the night of November 23, 1943, at about 1 o’clock, Blanche O. Jackson, the appellant, aged thirty-nine years, was returning home from work at a war plant in a public passenger bus northbound on U. S. Route 222. After alighting from it at St.…