Stroup v. Northeast Oklahoma Railroad

The opinion of the court was delivered by

Mason, J.:

Nellie R. Stroup was injured in a wreck caused by a motor car of the Northeast Oklahoma Railroad Company, in which she was a passenger, running into a car ahead of it, bound in the same direction, which had come to a stop while the other car was some two or three hundred feet behind it, going twenty-five or thirty miles an hour. She brought this action against the company *588to recover damages. A first trial resulted in a verdict for $37,000, which was set aside by the trial court on the ground that it was excessive “to the point that it…