Francis v. St. Louis Transfer Co.

This is an action against defendant, a common carrier, to' recover damages for injuries suffered by plaintiff in consequence of defendant’s breach of the terms of the contract to carry plaintiff, in one of defendant’s omnibuses, from a railroad depot in East St. Louis to plaintiff’s residence in St. Lo uis. It appears from the evidence that plaintiff, at the time of the injuries complained of, was an unmarried woman,, residing with her parents on Collins Street, St. Louis, about a mile north of the court-house. She was a milliner by trade,. twenty-three years old at the time of the trial, and…