Lyman v. Chicago City Railway Co.

This appeal brings up for review a verdict and judgment for $7,000 obtained by appellee for personal injuries. Briefly stated, the facts proved were as follows:

On March 27, 1906, in the forenoon, appellee was riding as a passenger upon a street car belonging to defendant, which was going west on Forty-Seventh Street. The car stopped at Hermitage Avenue to permit appellee and another woman to alight. Appellee stepped down from the rear platform to the street and then discovered that the bottom of her long heavy ulster coat was caught on something on the platform.. She attempted- to disengage…