Griffin v. Hohorst, Inc.

The complaint grounds in personal injuries received by Mrs. Griffin from a fall suffered by her as she was alighting from the defendants’ bus, the fall being due, as alleged, to the negligence of the defendants in permitting an accumulation of ice to form on the bus step. Judgment went for the plaintiffs, and the defendants appeal.

Mrs. Griffin testified that at no time did she see any ice on the step but that, as she was attempting to arise from the ground after her fall, she took hold of the step to help herself up and, as she did so, felt ice on the step. Mrs. Griffin’s granddaughter, a…