Fisher v. Louisville Transit Co.

MILLIKEN, Chief Justice.

The appellant, an adult passenger on a southbound Eighteenth Street 'bus of the Louisville Transit Company, received a broken arm when his elbow, which he had extended out an open window of the bus, struck a utility pole as the bus pulled away from the curb after stopping at Eighteenth and Oak Streets to discharge passengers. There is no evidence that the driver of the-bus knew the appellant’s arm protruded beyond the body of the bus. The jury rendered a verdict for the appellant against the Transit Company in the sum of $5,917, but the trial judge gave judgment for…