Wojtaszek v. Department of Street Railways

In action for damages for injuries caused by operation of a street car, the only testi mony as to the circumstances of the claimed negligent conduct was given by the plaintiff and as follows :

“The street car stopped to leave me off at Otis. I was getting off the front end of the car and had one foot on the step and the other foot in the air when the street car started with a sudden jerk and threw me to the pavement. I was dizzy afterwards and got up and went home. How I got there I don’t know. ’ ’

Plaintiff claimed that both physical injuries and “traumatic hysteria and traumatic neurosis”…