Brindley v. Wells

Action for personal injuries. Cast below upon a demurrer to her evidence the plaintiff appeals. We say demurrer, because the court peremptorily instructed the jury to find for defendant. Plaintiff was a passenger upon one of defendant’s street cars in the city of St. Louis. Her ground of action is thus stated in the petition:

“Plaintiff, for her amended canse of action, says that on or about the 13th day of March, 1921., she boarded one of the defendant’s south-bound Lee Avenue cars at Grand Avenue and Kossuth Street and rode on said car as a passenger to Nineteenth Street and Sullivan Avenue;…