Berkley Street Railway Co. v. Simpson

The defendant in error, Simpson, took passage on a street car of the plaintiff in error, the Berkley Street Railway Company, at Money Point, to be transported thence to Wilson’scorner in the vicinity of his koine in South Norfolk. The allegation in the first count of the declaration is that when the car reached Wilson’s corner it stopped an insufficient lengtk of time-*549to enable tbe plaintiff to alight in safety, and that as he was in the act of stepping from the car to the rear platform it was suddenly put in motion and he was thrown violently to the ground sustaining the injuries of which he…