Cannon v. Delaware Electric Power Co.

Layton, Chief Justice:

The plaintiff, a passenger for hire on a bus operated by the defendant, sued to recover damages for personal injuries occasioned by the negligence of the defendant’s operator. The second count of the declaration charged that “while the plaintiff was in the aisle of the bus walking to a seat,” the defendant negligently “started the said bus too suddenly before the said plaintiff had reached a place of safety in said bus and caused the said bus to back into an automobile which was parked directly behind the said bus thereby causing the plaintiff to be thrown” against some…