Dallas Consolidated Electric Street Railway Co. v. Black

FISHER, Chief Justice.

This is an action for damages by Miss Black against the Street Railway Company for injuries sustained while a passenger on one of the appellant’s cars. Verdict and judgment was in her favor for $3,000.

The grounds of negligence alleged were that the defendant- Street Railway Company was negligent in constructing the steps of its car upon which passengers and particularly ladies, are compelled to step in getting on and off the cars; that the steps were constructed of wood, leaving an opening therein-from the top extending through the same; that in attempting to alight from…