Torres Pérez v. White Star Bus Line, Inc.
Torres Pérez v. White Star Bus Line, Inc.
Opinion of the Court
delivered the opinion of the Court.
The appeal from the judgment rendered is based solely upon the ground that the trial court erred in weighing the evidence.
In its statement of the case the court below sets forth clearly, with reference to the evidence introduced, the theories adopted by both parties.
Plaintiff’s evidence tended to show that a bus was stopped in front of La Colectiva, facing toward Santurce; that another bus was coming from Santurce to San Juan in front of plaintiff’s automobile, which latter bus stopped almost parallel to the first bus; that when plaintiff sought also to stop, behind the second bus, another bus belonging to the defendant came in the opposite direction, at a high speed and without blowing its horn, which, in passing the first bus, skidded on the wet pavement and collided with the left front of plaintiff’s car and dragged it along, leaving the front part of the ear in the center and the back twisted toward the left; and that the plaintiff, as well as Mrs. Eduarda Con-roy de Mack accompanying him, were injured, were immediately taken to the Presbyterian Hospital and there received medical attention.
Defendant’s evidence tended to show that bus P-196 was going from San Juan to Santurce, carrying passengers and moving slowly because it was raining, driven by the chauffeur Francisco Santana; that there was another bus stopped at the right in front of La Colectiva, and that when the first bus passed the second, in the center of the street, plaintiff’s automobile came along in the opposite direction, from San-turce to San Juan, driven at an excessive speed by plaintiff who, when he got in front of bus P-196, put on his brakes; that plaintiff’s car then skidded and collided with the bus on the left front side, catching on the bumper >of the bus, which stopped at once.
We are of the opinion that the judgment appealed from should be affirmed.
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