Benson v. Wilmington City Railway Co.
Superior Court of Delaware
Action on the Case (No. 122, September Term 1909), to recover damages for personal injuries alleged to have been sustained by reason of the negligence'of the defendant in causing the car on which the plaintiff was a passenger to be suddenly moved forward with a jolt or jar, thereby throwing the plaintiff from the running-board of the car while attempting to alight therefrom.
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Action on the Case (No. 122, September Term 1909), to recover damages for personal injuries alleged to have been sustained by reason of the negligence'of the defendant in causing the car on which the plaintiff was a passenger to be suddenly moved forward with a jolt or jar, thereby throwing the plaintiff from the running-board of the car while attempting to alight therefrom. At the trial the plaintiff was permitted to testify, against objections and exceptions that her husband was blind and at the time in a hospital—and that she paid for the medicine which she got-from the doctor .
1Opinion of the Court
Pennewill, C. J.,
charging the jury:
Gentlemen of the jury:—This is an action brought by the plaintiff against the defendant to recover damages for personal injuries alleged to have been caused by the negligence of the defendant company. The plaintiff contends that on July 7th, 1909, she was a passenger on one of the cars of the defendant, and that by and through the negligence and carelessness of the defendant in suddenly starting up its said car, upon which the said plaintiff was then and there a passenger, while she was in the act of alighting from the said car at or near to Fifteenth and…
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