Gardiner v. Richardson

Mr. Presiding Justice Hebel

delivered the opinion of the court.

This is an appeal by the defendants from a judgment entered on the verdict of a jury for $10,000, for damages sustained by the plaintiff on April 19,1935, occasioned by a fall while she was alighting from the front step of a northbound Broadway avenue street car. Defendants’ motion for judgment notwithstanding the verdict was overruled and judgment was entered on the verdict.

The plaintiff charges that the motorman opened the door located at the front of the street car which would permit the plaintiff to alight therefrom; that…