Hodler v. Public Service Railway Co.

The opinion oí the court was delivered by

Vredenburgh, J.

The plaintiff sued the defendant traction companies for compensatory damages suffered by him by his fall from their electric passenger car while it was running from Hackensack to Newark, New Jersey, on the night of December 38th, 1907.

By his declaration he charged that the defendants negligently operated their car so as to cause him io fall from it to the ground, while he was lawfully riding therein. To this declaration the defendant the Hudson River Traction Company filed a plea of the general issue, and with it also a special plea to…