Gaisser v. New Orleans Public Service Inc.

In attempting to board a street car, the plaintiff fell and was injured. Hence this suit.

The plaintiff alleged that on April 18, 1925, at 10 o’clock a. m., she attempted to board the Dryades street car on the upper side of Peters or Jefferson Avenue on the lake side corner of St. Charles Avenue; that she was standing upon the street, as she was obliged to do, and endeavored to place her right foot upon the first step, but *140that in so doing she: fell 'by reason of the great distance between the street and the said step, and was thrown violently upon the brass handle of the street car where she…