Veenstra v. United Railways & Electric Co.

The plaintiff, while in a drunken stuper, was ejected from the defendant’s oar1, on which he was traveling as a passenger, and was soon afterwards injured by another car on the same railway. The question is whether the circumstances proved were such as to admit of a rational inference that the employees of the defendant, in their removal and disposition of the plaintiff, failed to exercise the care for his safety which his condition required. At the close of the evidence for the plaintiff, the ease was withdrawn from the jury, and the exception to that action is the principal one presented by…