Zilles v. Milwaukee Electric Railway & Light Co.

Plaintiff and Sylvia Pleva (the plaintiff in a companion case, which was tried with this action) were injured by falling off a trestle on defendant’s right of way, after alighting, shortly after midnight, from one of defendant’s interurban cars on which they had been transported as passengers. The plaintiffs relied on proof that they had never before been on the station grounds at which they alighted that night, and knew nothing about conditions at that place excepting that a public highway was to the west of those grounds; that when they alighted and the car departed, there was no…