North Chicago Street Railway Co. v. Lotz

"We affirm a good many unjust judgments against railways, because juries will find verdicts against them if there be any pretext for so doing, and unless on a record there is such a want of evidence to support the verdict, or what evidence there may be in that direction is so overwhelmed by opposing evidence that the verdict is glaringly wrong, we have no right to disturb it.

The appellee sued and recovered for an injury sustained which as she, and nobody else, testified, occurred by the starting of a car while she was in the act of stepping off, after it had stopped on her signal. The car was…