Cincinnati, N. & C. Ry. Co. v. Johnson

Opinion of the Court by

Judge Fulton

— Reversing.

The appellee, Marie Johnson, claimed in this action that after boarding the front platform of one of appellant’s streetcars, and, while walking back to a seat, she fell to the floor as the result of an unusually violent and unnecessary jerk of the car. She was awarded $500 by the verdict of the jury, and on this appeal, prosecuted from the judgment entered on that verdict, it is contended by appellant that the verdict should have been set aside as being flagrantly against the evidence.

It is the rule in this state that a passenger sustaining a…