Jannette v. M. F. Patterson Dental Supply Co.

Holt, Justice.

Plaintiff appeals from the order denying a new trial after verdict for defendants.

On January 19, 1933, about noon, plaintiff, a passenger on a street car crossing the Wabasha bridge in the city of St. Paul, signaled that she desired to get off at the northwesterly end of the bridge. After so doing, she walked to the rear platform of the car to be in readiness to step off when the rear doors opened. As the street car stopped or was in the act of stopping, defendant O’Dea, a city salesman of the other defendant, driving behind the street car in a Pontiac sedan, applied the brakes…