Burmeister v. Minneapolis Street Railway Co.

Defendant appealed from an order denying its motion for a new trial.

Plaintiff was a passenger in one of defendant’s cars and claims to have been injured by the car violently jerking and causing her to fall in the rear vestibule resulting in injury. She says a man on the rear platform assisted her.

Plaintiff’s case rests largely upon her unsupported testimony. She claims the accident occurred in October, 1929; that she continued on her way. to work and worked one and one-half days, then laid off one and one-half days and then continued with her work for about one year. She consulted a doctor…