Nollmeyer v. Tacoma Railway & Power Co.
Washington Supreme Court
Appeal from a judgment of the superior court for Pierce county, Clifford, J., entered March 18, 1916, upon the verdiet of a jury rendered in favor of the plaintiff, in an action for personal injuries sustained by a passenger in alighting from a street car.
1Opinion of the Court
Webster, J. —
This action was instituted by plaintiff to recover damages alleged by him to have been sustained on the 26th day of July, 1915, while attempting to alight from one of defendant’s street cars at Klee’s Station, in Pierce county. It is alleged in the complaint that the car upon which plaintiff was a passenger stopped at the above station for the purpose of discharging passengers; and while plaintiff was in the act of alighting, the defendant, through its agents and servants in charge of the car, caused the same to suddenly start and jerk, throwing plaintiff to the ground and…
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