Tampa Electric Co. v. Soule

Ellis, J.,

Dissenting. — I am unable to agree with the majority in the conclusion reached in this case because it seems to me from the evidence as I have read it that the cause of the plaintiff’s injury has not been shown with that degree of clearness which the law requires before it places upon the defendant the burden of compensating the injured person for the damages sustained.

On the 6th of June 1919 Miss Soule, the plaintiff in the court below, became a passenger on one of the cars of the Tampa Electric Co., a street railroad company. The car was bound for the city where Miss Soule wished…