Ciesielski v. Wagner Service, Inc.

The defendant operates a bus line in New Britain as a carrier of passengers for hire. As such it owes a duty to its passengers to exercise the highest degree of care and skill which reasonably might be expected of intelligent and prudent persons engaged in such a business in view of the instrumentalities employed and the dangers to be apprehended. Pe ck vs. Fanion, 124 Conn. 549.

On February 8, 1939, about 4:50 p.m., the plaintiff was a passenger on one of the defendant’s busses. The bus stopped near the curb and the sidewalk, and the plaintiff undertook to' alight from the bus. She fell upon…