Murphy v. North Jersey Street Railway Co.

The opinion of the court was delivered by

Yeedenbijrgh, J.

In the early winter morning (about seven o’clock) of December 8th, 1904, the plaintiff, a passenger traveling upon the defendant’s electric street railway car in Newark, New Jersey, while attempting to alight on her way from the rear platform of the car to the street, stepped with her right foot upon the step next below the platform, and, slipping on the ice which covered the step, fell down heavily backwards, striking her head upon it. The car was then stand*707ing still, having been stopped at her request in order that she might descend…