Linders v. Peoples Motorbus Co. of St. Louis

Action to recover fifteen thousand dollars for personal injuries. Plaintiff, a passenger on an eastbound street car on Washington Avenue, in St. Louis, Mo., alighted therefrom at Sixth Street. While on the step of the ear and in the act of alighting, he saw defendant’s motorbus thirty or forty feet west of the standing street ear and approaching Sixth Street on the south side of Washington Avenue at six miles an hour. He then stepped to the street, and, without again looking toward the approaching bus, proceeded toward the south curbing of the avenue fifteen feet from the street car. Thus…