JACKSONVILLE COACH COMPANY v. EARLY


78 So.2d 369 (1955)

JACKSONVILLE COACH COMPANY, a Corporation, Appellant, v. Sarah EARLY, Appellee.

Supreme Court of Florida. En Banc.

Rehearing Denied March 14, 1955.


Attorney(s) appearing for the Case

Elmer M. Norton, Lewis Rhea Baxter, and Rogers, Towers & Bailey, Jacksonville, for appellant.

Price & Stewart, Jacksonville, for appellee.


ROBERTS, Justice.

The plaintiff sued the defendant bus company for injuries allegedly caused by the negligence of the company's bus driver, the jury entered a verdict in her favor in the amount of $7,000, and the bus company has appealed.

The accident occurred when the plaintiff alighted from the bus during a rain, crossed an intervening space of three or four feet from the bus to the sidewalk, and then either slipped or fell while stepping up onto the sidewalk...

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