Shellman v. Louisville Railway Co.

Opinion of the Court by

Judge Lassing —

Affirming.

TMs suit was instituted in the Jefferson Circuit Court by' appellant for the purpose of recovering damages for personal injuries alleged to have been sustained by him on May 18th, 1910, while boarding one of appellee’s passenger cars at Fifth and Market streets. The petition charges that the car had stopped at Fifth and Market to permit appellant and others to become passengers thereon, and that while he was in the act of getting upon the car, which was known as a “summer” car, with the side *527next to the street entirely open and a running hoard…