Smith v. Blue Ridge Transportation Co.

This is an appeal by the plaintiff, a passenger on the bus line of the defendant, a common carrier, from a judgment on a verdict directed for the carrier, in a suit for damages for personal injury sustained by a fall while leaving the bus at the end of the journey.

The plaintiff testified that on or about the 28th day of April, in the year 1933, he purchased a ticket entitling him to transportation in the defendant's motor bus from Frederick, Maryland, to Baltimore City; that he entered the bus at Frederick, passing to a seat which extended entirely across the rear of the bus, and taking a…