Conductor's Fall : £2 . ,415 Damages
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DECAUSE there was no vertical rail on the platform of his single-decker, there' was nothing to inmede the fatal fall of the conductor on to the road
• when he lost his balance in reaching up with both hands to place his ticket rack in the box. r The accident occurred in March, l949,•.: and • in the Queen's Bench • Division, last .week, the .conductor's widow, Mrs: B., E. C. Detheridge, sued the London Transport .-Executive for damages. alleging that death was occasioned by negligence and/or breach of doty, by the L.T.E. The Executive denied liability, according to "The Times," • Summing up. Mr. Justice Devlin said that the case merged into one question: Was the bus reasonably safe?." " Reasonably " was a necessary qualification andCould not imply absolute safety -The plaintiff alleged that a reasonably prudents employer woultl have realized that there was no proper protection.: The defendant considered that..,the_ vehicle: was safe and that a vertical-rail was unnecessary. .
The iury: returned a verdict in favour of the'_plaintiff, who was awarded .E2,100 daniages: .315 damagei was aWarded to her son, aged.I 5.