Kliebenstein v. Iowa Railway & Light Co.

— The plaintiff was a passenger on one of the cars of the defendant, a street railway company operating a street railway in Marshalltown, Iowa. The ear upon which the plaintiff was riding at the time in question was a one-man car, and the motorman, who was also the conductor and in sole charge of the car, stopped the car near the car barn on South Third Avenue in the city of Marshalltown, at which place the street inclines to the south across the tracks of the Great Western Railway Company. This incline is a 2.9 per cent grade, referred to in the testimony as a steep grade, and as the South…