Fort Smith Traction Co. v. Oliver

This is an appeal from the Crawford Circuit Court, in which a judgment was rendered in favor of Charles Oliver against the Fort Smith Traction Company for damages for personal injury in the sum of $3,500.

The material facts that are undisputed are as follows: Appellee, Charles Oliver, boarded appellant’s street car in the city of Van Burén to go to Fort Smith in the early evening of February 15, 1931. The track of appellant’s street railway system passes from the city of Van Burén in a southerly direction across the Arkansas River over a public bridge. As the street car on which appellee was…