Ottinger v. Detroit United Railway

( dissenting). This action is brought to recover damages for injuries received by plaintiff, a married woman, who claims she was violently thrown forward and down while a passenger, because of the negligent stopping of the car by the motorman. At the conclusion of the testimony the trial judge directed a verdict in favor of defendant.

The only question necessary to discuss is whether the case should be decided as a matter of law, or whether, as plaintiff claims, it should have been submitted to the jury.

The plaintiff, with her husband and a friend, took a car going south on Oakland avenue at…