Foley v. Manhattan El. Railway Co.

This is an action for damages for injuries sustained by the plaintiff upon a stairway leading to the elevated railroad station of the defendant. At the close of the testimony the complaint of the plaintiff was dismissed, and she has appealed, from the judgment of dismissal.

The testimony on the part of the plaintiff is very unsatisfactory in respect to the precise cause of her injury. She says that she entered the car at Twenty-Third street and Third avenue, and left at Sixty-Seventh street. She started downstairs, and, after descending about five steps, her feet were held fast in the rubber,…