New Jersey Traction Co. v. Gardner

The opinion of the court was delivered by

Garrison, J.

The injury for which the plaintiff was awarded damages by the verdict below was received by him while stepping from the front platform of a moving horse car. In his testimony at the trial the plaintiff thus describes his accident:

“ I told him to stop, and as soon as he got near the corner, he put the brake on and slacked pretty near to a stop; when I got off with my left foot and was getting the other off, the car shot right ahead ánd ketched me by the left shoulder, and held me up against the car until I got in the middle; and then it…