Krone v. Southwest Missouri Electric Railway Co.
Missouri Court of Appeals
Appeal from Jasper Circuit Court . — Hon. J. D. Perkins, Judge. STATEMENT BT BROADDUS, J. This is a proceeding brought to September term, 1901, of the Jasper Circuit Court to recover damages for injuries to plaintiff in alighting from defendant’s car (upon which she was a passenger) on August 16, 1901, at Main and Elizabeth streets in Carterville, Missouri.
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Appeal from Jasper Circuit Court . — Hon. J. D. Perkins, Judge. STATEMENT BT BROADDUS, J. This is a proceeding brought to September term, 1901, of the Jasper Circuit Court to recover damages for injuries to plaintiff in alighting from defendant’s car (upon which she was a passenger) on August 16, 1901, at Main and Elizabeth streets in Carterville, Missouri. The facts as shown by the evidence are as follows: That on the 16th day of August, 1901, there was a public gathering at Lakeside Park on line of defendant’s road, some three miles east of Carterville, at which there was a large crowd in…
1Opinion of the CourtBroaddus, J.
— The defendant, among other instructions, some of which were given, asked the court to give the following which was refused, viz.:
“The court instructs the jury that if they believe from the evidence that the conductor stopped the ear at Elizabeth street to let Mrs. Kirksey and plaintiff get off said car, and that Mrs. Kirksey got off and before plaintiff could get off some one, not an employee of tne *612defendant, without the knowledge or authority of the conductor, rung the hell and gave the motorman the signal to start, and in pursuance of said signal the motorman started the car and…
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