Kreimelmann v. Jourdan

GOODE, J,

Plaintiff received very serious injuries, including the loss of a foot, by being struck by one of the trolley ears of The People’s Railway Company, tben operated by tbe predecessor of the present receiver. Plaintiff had taken passage at the southeast comer of Ohio street and- Lafayette avenue on an open summer car with a continuous step or footboard along each side. He got on the car on the south side, intending to go eastward on Lafayette, as the railway track runs east and west on that avenue from the corner mentioned. Plaintiff was accompanied by his brother and, as they saw no…