Muller v. Manhattan Railway Co.

The defendant’s motion to dismiss the complaint should have been granted. The plaintiff, traveling in one of defendant’s cars, wished to alight at Eorty-second street. As the train approached that street, the conductor announced it and plaintiff arose and went to the door, preparatory to alighting when' the train should stop. He put his hand on the jamb of the doorway and, as he says, “ through the sudden stop of the train, I bruised my hand when the door slammed.” This is the only evidence as to hów the accident came to happen. No reason is given why the plaintiff should have put his hand on…