Wabash River Traction Co. v. Baker
Indiana Supreme Court
From Huntington Circuit Court; James C. Branyan, Judge. Action by Ethel Baker against the Wabash River Traction Company and another. From a judgment on a verdict for plaintiff for $800, defendant company appeals. Transferred from Appellate Court under §1337u Burns 1901, Acts 1901, p. 590.
1Opinion of the CourtMontgomery, J.
Appellee recovered a judgment for a personal injury sustained while being carried as a passenger by appellant. The only assigned error relied upon is the overruling of appellant’s motion for a new trial. The grounds of the motion urged upon us are insufficiency of evidence to sustain the verdict and error of law in giving to the jury instructions two and four at the request of appellee.
*2641. Appellee was returning to the city of'Wahash from Boyd park, and it was near midnight when she was hurt. The car was crowded, the seats were full, some of the passengers sitting in the laps of others, the…
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