Stokes v. Metropolitan Street Railway Co.

—Plaintiff alleges that she sustained personal injury in alighting from a street car operated by defendant and that her injury was caused by negligence of defendant in prematurely starting the car while she was in the act of alighting.

_ The answer is a general denial. The first trial of the ease resulted in a verdict for plaintiff in the sum *677of eleven hundred dollars, but this verdict was set aside and a new trial ordered. At the second trial the jury returned a verdict in favor of plaintiff for seven thousand five hundred dollars and after its motions, for a new trial and in arrest of…