Tampa Electric Co. v. Soule

The declaration herein alleges in one count that the plaintiff, a passenger, was alighting from the defendant’s street car, “when the skirt of her dress without fault or negligence on her part caught and became fastened upon a nut or bolt or other part of said car which the said defendant had so negligently permitted to become loose and in a dangerous condition and thereby the plaintiff in stepping from said ear in attempting to alight therefrom was jerked, pulled and with great force and violence thrown and fell to and upon the street pavement by means whereof, then and there the plaintiff”…