Hufnagel v. Pittsburgh Rwys. Co., Etc.

Opinion by

Me. Justice Patteeson,

This was an action in trespass for injuries allegedly resulting from negligence in the operation of a street railway car.

Ethel I. Hufnagle, the plaintiff, testified that she boarded a street car of Pittsburgh Railways Company, entering at a door in the center of the car; that as she was walking towards the rear of the car to find a seat it started with a “very violent lurch”; that the lurch was “the most violent” she had ever encountered in riding street cars; and that she fell or was thrown to the floor of the car, sustaining injuries. At the time Miss…