Hodge v. Birmingham Electric Co.

BROWN, Justice.

Action on the case by a passenger against the carrier to recover damages for personal injuries, alleged to have been inflicted on the plaintiff as a proximate consequence of the defendant’s negligence in the operation of its street car.

The. facts pleaded as suggesting negligence, though the complainant does not draw the conclusion of negligence therefrom, are that after plaintiff had entered the carrier’s street car and paid her fare and was “standing in said street car, the said street car on said date was caused to jerk or lunge in an unusual, violent, and unnecessary…