Hess v. Cincinnati Street Railway Co.

This is a proceeding in error to the Municipal Court of Cincinnati. The sole question raised by the record is as to the correctness of the ruling of the court in sustaining the motion of the defendant for an instructed verdict at the close of the plaintiff’s evidence.

The record shows that the plaintiff was a passenger on one of the defendant’s street cars. As she was alighting therefrom she fell' and received certain injuries. According to her testimony the car came to a stop and the door opened, she was in the act of stepping down and was right in the exit when the door closed and then…