Kunz v. Connecticut Co.

The plaintiff brought this action to recover damages suffered as a result of a fall while a passenger in a bus of the defendant company, caused by his stepping upon a loose bolt on the floor when he arose to leave the bus. While the record does not show this, counsel for both parties agree that the trial court directed a verdict for the defendant, which the jury rendered, and from the refusal of the trial court to set it aside the plaintiff has appealed.

He bases his right to recover upon the ground that had the defendant exercised due care in the inspection of the bus it would have discovered…