Root v. Des Moines City Railway Co.

*6771 *676The plaintiff was the only passenger on the defendant’s car moving westward on University avenue in Des Moines, and desired to alight at its intersection with Twenty-Seventh street. The motorman had left the car at *677Twenty-Fourth street, and the conductor was in sole charge. At the alley just before reaching Twenty-Seventh street, she claims to have signalled the conductor, when looking back, by nodding the head, to let her off at the next street, and that he at once moved the levers, and the car began to slow up; that when it was crossing the street she went to the rear end, to be ready to…