Gugler v. Omaha & Council Bluffs Street Railway Co.

The plaintiff in attempting to alight from one of defendant’s cars was thrown to the ground and injured, and brought this action to recover damages which she says she sustained" from such injury. In her petition the plaintiff alleged that while she was in the act of alighting from the car, and before she had sufficient time to do so, the car was suddenly and immediately started forward by the defendant, and that plaintiff was “thereby jerked, thrown, and dragged down from said car to and upon the pavement.” The answer denied these allegations of the plaintiff, and alleged that after the car…