Morris v. Galveston Electric Co.

This was a suit brought by appellants, Elsie M. Morris and her husband, James Morris, to recover damages for personal injuries alleged to have been received by Mrs. Monis by reason of the alleged negligence of appellee’s employes, who were operating a street car in the city of Galveston, upon which Mrs. Morris was a passenger. Appellants’ claim was that, the street car having stopped at the place where Mrs. Morris desired to leave it, while she was in the act of leaving the car, by way of the platform, the car was, without warning, unexpectedly and suddenly put in forward motion, and she was…