Christensen v. Omaha & Council Bluffs Street Railway Co.

Joseph S. Christensen sued the defendant on March 4, 1905, to recover for personal injuries caused by reason of the alleged negligence of an employee of defendant in running one of its electric street railway cars in Omaha. The case was tried to a jury, and a verdict returned in favor of the company, upon which judgment was rendered, and plaintiff appeals.

The petition alleges, in substance, that the injury occurred about 9 o’clock in the evening of April 18, 1903, as plaintiff was in the act of stepping on defendant’s track on Twenty-fourth street near Willis avenue; that the car approached…