Schoen v. Boulder Stage Lines, Inc.
Decision Date | 11 April 1966 |
Docket Number | No. 21031,21031 |
Citation | 412 P.2d 905,159 Colo. 531 |
Parties | Louise SCHOEN, Plaintiff in Error, v. BOULDER STAGE LINES, INC., a Colorado corporation, and Lewis Campbell, Defendants in Error. |
Court | Colorado Supreme Court |
Ryan, Sayre, Martin & Brotzman, Boulder, for plaintiff in error.
Sheldon & Nordmark, Richard C. McLean, Denver, for defendants in error.
The parties will be referred to as they appeared in the trial court where plaintiff in error was plaintiff and defendants in error were defendants.
Plaintiff brought the action to recover damages which resulted from personal injuries allegedly sustained by her while she was a passenger in a taxicab operated by Campbell, a driver employed by the defendant Boulder Stage Lines Inc. Her complaint contained the following allegation, Inter alia:
The defendants in their answer admitted that the plaintiff was a passenger in one of its taxicabs at the time mentioned in the complaint, but denied any negligence on the part of the driver of the cab, and also denied that the plaintiff sustained damages as a result of any conduct of defendant Campbell. Affirmatively it was alleged by the defendants that 'injuries and damages, if any, of which the plaintiff complains were the result of an unavoidable accident.' It was also alleged in the answer that the injuries, if any, of which the plaintiff complains were 'proximately caused by her own sole or contributory negligence'; and that the 'sudden stop' of which plaintiff complains 'was but a normal incident inherent in metropolitan traffic, the risk of which is assumed by all vehicle passengers including the plaintiff.'
Upon trial to a jury a verdict was returned in favor of the defendants, and judgment entered on the verdict. Plaintiff seeks reversal of the judgment by writ of error and relies on several points among which are included the following:
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