Benjamin v. City of Seattle

This is an appeal from a judgment of the trial court setting aside a verdict of $6,000 for the plaintiff, Blanche C. Benjamin, and granting the city of Seattle a judgment non obstante veredicto on the basis that no negligence had been established on the part of the city.

Mrs. Benjamin, a 73-year-old widow, short of stature, stepped from a Seattle transit trolley coach parked with the step a foot away from the curb. She apparently stepped down to the street, instead of the curb as she expected, and fell onto the sidewalk sustaining a serious fracture of the left femur and injury to her leg and…