Morrissey v. City & County of San Francisco

THE COURT.

The plaintiff, a man about fifty-eight years of age, was injured while attempting to board a moving street-car of the Municipal Railway of San Francisco. The accident occurred about noon on April 19, 1926, on Balboa Street at a point where the cars usually stop. The plaintiff testified that he signaled the motorman, who thereupon slackened speed so that when the rear step came abreast of plaintiff the car was moving so slowly as to be nearly at a standstill; that he grasped with his left hand the rearmost stanchion used by passengers in boarding the car, and reached his right hand…