Evansville City Coach Lines, Inc. v. Atherton

Appellee brought this action, to recover damages for personal injuries allegedly sustained by her when she was allegedly thrown down the steps of a bus owned and operated by appellant.

The amended complaint averred in substance that appellee was a passenger for hire on a Heidelbach bus on or about the 1st day of September, 1955; that when said bus stopped to permit appellee to alight, and as she was in, the process of alighting, appellant carelessly and negligently started said bus in motion throwing her down the steps, out of the bus onto the concrete pavement and, as a result thereof, she…