Ottinger v. Detroit United Railway

The plaintiff, a married woman, in company with another woman, and plaintiff’s husband, boarded one of defendant’s street cars. The car started before she secured a seat; the car being well filled and unoccupied seats few. She caused her lady friend, a guest, to take the first vacant seat she came to, and con-*107tinned forward in the oar. As she stood holding onto a seat, a passenger moved to make room for her, and she turned to sit down. At that moment the brake was put on to stop the car at a switch, and she fell forward and was injured. She said that the car stopped so suddenly that her hold…