Clapp v. Cumberland County Power & Light Co.
Supreme Judicial Court of Maine
On motion by defendant. An action to recover damages for injuries sustained by plaintiff, a passenger, while alighting from a street car of defendant at Lincoln Street in South Portland, caused by a sudden starting of the car. The jury returned a verdict of $2,050.00 for the plaintiff, and the defendant filed a general motion for a new trial. The c^se is fully stated in the opinion.
1Opinion of the CourtMorrill, J.
This is an action to recover damages for injuries suffered by the plaintiff, a passenger, while attempting to alight from a Portland bound Saco car of defendant at Lincoln Street, Ligonia, so called, in South Portland, through the sudden starting of the car. The plaintiff’s case is thus stated in the declaration: “that as said plaintiff was on the running board and was stepping from said car to the street, while said car was at a standstill, said car suddenly and without warning and in a violent manner started forward; that the sudden starting of said car was caused by the defendant, through…
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