Handy v. N. O. Public Service, Inc.

Plaintiff sues defendant as a carrier of passengers for damages for personal injuries alleged to have been sustained while alighting from a street car of defendant company at the corner of Washington and Preret streets in the city of New Orleans on July 18, 1928, at 11 o’clock a. m. The charge of negligence against the defendant company is that, as the plaintiff was attempting to alight from the car, it prematurely started, causing her to fall to the ground.

Defendant denied that it was in any way guilty of negligence and avers that the plaintiff fell, after the car had properly stopped, as a…