SPRING v. KANSAS CITY AREA TRANSP. AUTH.

No. 76246.

873 S.W.2d 224 (1994)

Charlotte Lee SPRING, Respondent, v. KANSAS CITY AREA TRANSPORTATION AUTHORITY and Cornelius J. Gottstein, Appellants.

Supreme Court of Missouri, En Banc.

Rehearing Denied April 26, 1994.


Attorney(s) appearing for the Case

Richard N. Ward, City Atty., Kathleen A. Hauser, Acting City Atty., and Dorothy L. Campbell, Asst. City Atty., Kansas City, for appellants.

James D. Walker, Jr., Kansas City, for respondent.


COVINGTON, Chief Justice.

This case is on appeal for the second time. The recurring issue is error in the verdict directing instruction. On May 2, 1989, Charlotte Spring boarded a Kansas City Area Transportation Authority (KCATA) bus driven by Cornelius J. Gottstein. As Ms. Spring made her way down the aisle of the bus, the driver started, then soon thereafter stopped the bus. Ms. Spring fell to the floor of the bus and injured her knee. She brought a negligence action...

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