Johnson v. City of Monroe

TALIAFERRO, Judge.

The city of Monroe, La., owns and op-'J erates, as a business enterprise, a system.of street railways and busses within its 'territorial limits to serve and accommodate the public. Plaintiff boarded one of the city’s busses about midevening, April 7, 1934, at the corner of Washington and North Eighth streets; paid her fare and had made two steps down the aisle towards seats in the rear of the bus, reserved for negro passengers, when she was thrown violently to the floor on account of the bus being suddenly brought to a stop about the center of the intersection of the…