Stewart v. Sixth Ave. R.

The plaintiff was riding as a passenger on the front platform of one of the defendant’s cars, to smoke. Ho fell off. One of his hands was caught under one of the forward wheels, and injured so that it had to be cut off. lie testified that the car was going fast and rocking up and down; that, in passing to change sides, he touched the driver, whereupon the driver hit him violently with the driver’s shoulder, and sent him against the end of the car, and, with the motion of the car, against the dash-board, so that he fell over. The driver testified that the plaintiff fell off, and that the…