Kline v. Santa Barbara Etc. Ry. Co.

On July 26, 1903, the defendant, a street-railway corporation engaged in operating electric cars in the city of Santa Barbara, received the plaintiff, a woman sixty-five years of age, as a passenger in one of its cars at the terminus of the line, immediately in front of the old Franciscan Mission in said city. When the plaintiff boarded the car she seated herself on one of the rear outside seats, which was long enough to seat three persons comfortably, and' which ran parallel with the axis of the car. Immediately in front of her was a standard carrying a hand-rail, and extending from the side…