Melia v. Malicke Bus Co.

As we read the evidence in this case, a rule to show cause should have been refused by the trial court. The facts are very simple and are established in large measure by the evidence of the defendants’ servant who was operating the bus that injured the plaintiff.

Plaintiff was crossing Exchange Place, Jersey City, from south to north on a crosswalk and had almost reached the northerly curb line. As he was crossing, the defendants’ bus under the management and control of defendants’ driver named Graso was standing at the northerly curb of Exchange Place about where it joins Montgomery street…