Read the full judgment text of HCA 000493/1976 on BabelCite. This High Court CFI judgment was delivered on 27 January 1977.
1. On 27th January, 1975, the Plaintiff, a married female aged about 60, was a passenger in a Kowloon Motor Bus bearing the registration number AD398 owned by the 2nd Defendant and driven by the 1st Defendant. When the Plaintiff was alighting from the said bus at a bus stop at Broadway, Mei Foo Sun Chuen opposite site Stage 3, the 1st Defendant closed the door of the said bus before the Plaintiff had fully descended. The Plaintiff thereby lost balance and fell to the ground but as she was still