New Orleans & C. R. v. Schneider
Court of Appeals for the Fifth Circuit
In Error to 'the Circuit Court of the United States for the Eastern District of Louisiana. This was an action by Elizabeth Schneider against the Hew Orleans & Carrollton Railroad Company, a street railroad, for personal injuries. Plaintiff obtained a verdict in the sum of $2,000, “with legal interest from judicial demand,” and judgment was subsequently entered thereon. 54 Fed. 466. Defendant now brings error.
1Opinion of the Court
McCORMICK, Circuit Judge.
The defendant in error was a passenger on one of the cars of plaintiff in error, and her arm was *211broken by coming in coni act with an iron post planted near tin; track. She sued the company, claiming damages tor this injury. She alleged that she was seated by a window that was open when she entered, and took her seat in the car, and that afterwards she rested her arm upon the window sill; that the car turned, and (while running on a switch recently constructed for temporary use by the plaintiff in error) suddenly passed so close to an iron post standing near the track…
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