Dallas Consolidated Electric Street Railway Co. v. Chase

This action was brought by appellee Chase to recover damages for injuries inflicted upon him, in attempting to alight from one of its cars, by the defendant company. He alleged in his petition that while a pasenger on one of defendant’s cars going down Main Street he desired to alight at the crossing of Harwood Street and so informed the conductor, but that upon approaching the crossing he discovered that the conductor was not going to stop, he rang the bell as a signal to the motorman to stop, whereupon the motorman signalled to him to get off and that thereupon he approached the rear…