Leavitt v. St. Louis Public Service Company

DOERNER, Commissioner.

Plaintiff Regina Leavitt brought this action for damages for personal injuries claimed to have occurred when the rear doors of defendant’s motorbus, on which she was a passenger, were closed on her as she was in the act of alighting, causing her to fall to the street. Verdict and judgment was for $7,000 and defendant appealed.

Defendant attacks the judgment on numerous grounds: (1) that plaintiff’s testimony as to the manner in which the accident occurred was contrary to physical posr sibility, and therefore should not have been accepted as substantial evidence, entitling…