Zwick v. Swinney

Defendants are receivers of a street' railway company in Sedalia and plaintiff a young woman residing in such city was injured by being thrown from one of their cars. She brought this action and recovered judgment in the circuit court.

The charges of negligence are such insufficient supply of cars as compelled plaintiff, on account of crowded condition, to ride in a standing position on a “running board” along side of the car, instead of inside seated in a seat; and in running the car at high *143speed over a rough and uneven track, so that the car suddenly lurched and swayed so as to throw her…