Wallace v. Shreveport Rys. Co.

Taliaferro, Judge.

Plaintiff sues to recover damages for physical injuries, pain, and suffering experienced as the result of her accidentally falling to the floor of one of defendant’s trolley cars while a passenger therein. She boarded the car in the nighttime at the intersection of Fair street with Mangum street in the city of Shreveport, paid her fare and stepped up 6 inches from the floor of the vestibule to the floor of the car proper and, according to her allegations, fell face forward and on her right side, to the floor, because the car was put in motion by a sudden and unusual jerk.…