Butler v. Arkansas Power & Light Co.

This suit was brought by Mamie Butler to recover damages to compensate an injury alleged to have been sustained by her while she was a passenger on one of appellee’s street cars in the city of Little Bock. Two grounds of negligence were alleged. The first was that, as the plaintiff was about to alight from the street car on which she had been a passenger, the motorman started the car prematurely, after having- stopped it. But, as the plaintiff herself testified that she fell before the car was put in motion, this allegation of negligence passed out of the case.

The second ground of negligence…