Lee v. Dade County

Appellant appeals from a final judgment entered pursuant to an adverse jury verdict in a negligence, personal injury action.

Plaintiff-appellant, an eighty-year old woman, suffered a broken hip while alighting from a bus operated by defendant-ap-pellee. It was appellant’s contention at trial, that the accident was proximately caused by appellee’s driver parking his bus in such a position that the exit door directly overlooked a recessed sewage drain. Appellant argued that, in so parking his vehicle in the above manner, the driver created a negligent condition, i.e., an unusually high (20…