Conway v. Lewiston & Auburn Horse Railroad
Supreme Judicial Court of Maine
On motion and exceptions. This was an action on the case upon which the plaintiff recovered a verdict of $347.17, for injuries received by her in alighting from the defendant’s horse car, on the evening of August 27, 1892, on Skinner street in Lewiston, her ankle being-broken.
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On motion and exceptions. This was an action on the case upon which the plaintiff recovered a verdict of $347.17, for injuries received by her in alighting from the defendant’s horse car, on the evening of August 27, 1892, on Skinner street in Lewiston, her ankle being-broken. The plaintiff claimed that at the point where she alighted, close by the car, was a ditch at the side of the road, and that the conductor came along when he stopped the car and helped her off at this point; that in the dark, not knowing- anything about the ditch, and supposing it to be a safe place to alight, she…
1Opinion of the CourtEmery, J.
The defendant company was operating a street railway through various streets in Lewiston. The plaintiff was *285being transported along the street as a passenger on one of the company’s open cars. Upon her signifying a desire to alight, the car was stopped to enable her to do so, though at some distance beyond the place where she gave the signal. It chanced that, at the place where the car stopped, the side of the street sloped away into a ditch, so that the step down from the car to the surface of the ground was longer than usual, or than she anticipated, and consequently she lost her balance,…
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