Bloomington & Normal Railway v. Zimmerman

This is an appeal from a judgment of $708.33-J- recovered by appellee for injuries sustained by her in being thrown to the ground by the sudden moving of appellant’s street car while she was attempting to alight therefrom. The evidence shows that about ten o’clock of a night in July, 1900, appellee took passage on a south-bound car on South Main street in Bloomington with the intention of alighting at Miller street some twelve blocks south. She told the conductor in charge of the car when -he collected her ticket that she desired to yet off at Miller street. The car was crowded and the street…