Gabriel v. Metropolitan Street Railway Co.

This is an action by a passenger against a common carrier to recover damages for personal injuries alleged to have been caused by negligence of the carrier. A trial of the cause ended in a verdict and judgment for plaintiff in the sum of $1250, and defendant appealed.

Plaintiff, who was sixty-five years old, entered a car of defendant to become a passenger thereon while the car was standing at a regular stopping place for the reception and discharge of passengers. She alleges in her petition and her evidence tends to show that she was entering the car with reasonable dispatch and that it…