Rooker v. Deering Southwestern Railway Co.

The plaintiff in this suit.recovered a judgment in the circuit court for $3000, the full amount sued for in the petition. Her cause of action is based on a petition allegipg as the sole ground of negligence that the defendant railroad company, while carrying her as a passenger on one of its trains, negligently and carelessly operated its train with a sudden and unusual jerk which threw her from the train and to the ground while said train was in motion and while she was standing on the platform of the coach preparatory to alighting from the train at her station. This is the third appeal to…