Beckwith v. Louisville Ry. Co.

Opinion of the Court by

Judge Cammack

Affirming.

Appellant, Elizabeth Beckwith, fell and was injured as she was leaving one of appellee’s, Louisville Railway Company, trolley coaches. The coach had stopped for the purpose of loading and unloading passengers. Appellant fell from the lower step to the street, thereby skinning her knee and spraining her left arm and forearm. She sought to recover damages from the Railway Company, alleging in her petition that, while in the act p£ alighting from the trolley coach, “on account of the negligence of the defendant in failing to maintain the step of said…