Bowen v. City of St. Paul

The facts in the case are not in material dispute. Plaintiff was a passenger on a street car on one of the car lines of St. Paul intending to transfer to another line at “Seven Corners,” a junction or intersection of several diverging streets in that part of the city. She alighted when the car stopped at the usual point and with other passengers with like intentions of transfer passed around the rear of the car and thence directly to the sidewalk a few feet distant. The place where the car so stopped was 40 or 50 feet from the street intersection, but passengers were customarily discharged at…