Latham v. Columbus Railway & Light Co.

This is an action for personal injury alleged to have been caused by the negligence of defendant.

Plaintiff avers that he was in the act of stepping on to the lower front step of a ear of the defendant, and that while in the act of talcing passage on the car, the motorman and conductor maliciously and purposely and. negligently started the car with a forward sudden jerk, throwing him in front of the truck of the car, the wheels running over him, injuring him as alleged' in the petition.

Defendant answers admitting that plaintiff ivas injured at ■the time and place alleged, and "further…