Huber v. Cedar Rapids & Marion City Railway Co.
Supreme Court of Iowa
Appeal from Lima District Court.— Hon. Wm. G. Thompson, Judge. Action for damages. The plaintiff appeals from a judgment on a directed verdict for the defendant.
1Opinion of the CourtLadd, J.
The defendant operates an electric street car line from Marion, to Cedar Rapids. The track is single, with trolley poles on the south side to Seventeenth street, in the latter city, and from there on double, with poles between. The inside rails are from five feet eleven inches to six feet and one inch apart, and iron poles to support the trolley wires were set midway between them. These poles are six and a half inches wide, and two feet and eight inches, or a little more, from the inside rail. The plaintiff boarded ■car No. 6 at Marion, and rode on the back platform, next to the railing…
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- Dahlberg v. Minneapolis Street Railway Co.Supreme Court of Minnesota · 1884
- Miller v. St. Louis RailroadMissouri Court of Appeals · 1878
- Coggeshall v. Home for Friendless ChildrenSupreme Court of Rhode Island · 1894
- Cummings v. Worcester, Leicester, & Spencer Street Railway Co.Massachusetts Supreme Judicial Court · 1896
- Watson v. Portland & Cape Elizabeth Railway Co.Supreme Judicial Court of Maine · 1898
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