Shorts v. New Orleans Public Service, Inc.

PLOTKIN, Judge.

Plaintiff, Jennie Shorts, instituted suit against defendant, New Orleans Public Service, Inc., (NOPSI), for damages received by Ms. Shorts while a passenger on a bus owned and operated by NOPSI. The trial judge awarded the plaintiff $3500 for pain and suffering and $322 for the itemized medical bills. Defendant NOPSI appeals. We reverse.

The question presented here is the liability of NOPSI for injuries caused to a fare-paying passenger who fell on a floor wet from rainwater.

On the rainy morning of September 19, 1980, as plaintiff was walking toward the front of the bus in…