Omaha Street Railway Co. v. Craig
Nebraska Supreme Court
Error from the district court of Douglas county. Tried below before Ferguson, J. The facts appear in the opinion. It is negligence to leap from a moving street car. (Hagan v. Philadelphia & G. F. R. Co., 15 Phila. [Pa.], 278.) If passenger signaled the car to stop and the car immediately began to slow down speed, and the passenger, without waiting for the car to stop, did step from the, ear while in motion and was injured, he cannot recover.
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Error from the district court of Douglas county. Tried below before Ferguson, J. The facts appear in the opinion. It is negligence to leap from a moving street car. (Hagan v. Philadelphia & G. F. R. Co., 15 Phila. [Pa.], 278.) If passenger signaled the car to stop and the car immediately began to slow down speed, and the passenger, without waiting for the car to stop, did step from the, ear while in motion and was injured, he cannot recover. (Harmon v. Washington & G. R. Co., 6 Mackey [D. C.], 64.) A passenger in the act of stepping down from the front platform of a street car, and when his…
1Opinion of the Court
Ragan, C.
Miss Margaret Craig brought this suit in the district court of Douglas county against the Omaha Street Railway Company (hereinafter called the “company”) to recover damages for a personal injury which she alleges she sustained by reason of the company’s negligence while she was a passenger on its cars on September 22,1889. The defenses of the company were a general denial, and contributory negligence on the part of Miss Craig. There was a finding and judgment for Miss Craig, and the company prosecutes error.
The car on which Miss Craig was a passenger was the last of a train of two…
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