Bedenk v. St. Louis Public Service Company

DALTON, Presiding Judge.

Action for damages for personal injuries sustained on account of alleged negligence of defendant. Verdict and judgment were for plaintiff for $8,000 and defendant appealed.

On July 19, 1952, plaintiff, a resident of Livingston, Illinois, was a passenger on defendant’s northbound bus in Pine Lawn, St. Louis County, when it stopped to discharge passengers at Grimshaw Avenue and Jennings Road, which was plaintiff’s destination. Plaintiff and her five year old daughter attempted to leave the bus by the right rear door. Plaintiff took her daughter’s left hand in her right…