Mullins v. Boston & Maine Transportation Co.

There was evidence that immediately before the accident, the bus was going “very slowly . . . not much more than 10 or 15 miles an hour probably” and that the driver made a “good stop”; he “stopped very easy”; that “there was no jar to it or anything, just a natural stop.” If the jury accepted this view of the occurrence, as they may have done, there was no negligence in the operation of the bus which adequately accounted for the plaintiff’s fall and a search for some other cause became necessary. The plaintiff’s own conduct, therefore, became a natural source of inquiry and was fully…