Sims v. New Orleans Ry. & Light Co.
Supreme Court of Louisiana
Appeal from Twenty-Ninth Judicial District Court, Parish of St. Bernard; R. E. Ilingle, Judge. Action by Marie Cook Sims against the New Orleans Railway & Light Company, for personal injuries. From judgment for plaintiff, defendant appeals.
1Opinion of the CourtSommerville, J.
Plaintiff alleges that, while riding as a passenger in a car of the defendant company, she was carelessly and recklessly thrown from the car and injured and damaged in the manner and to the extent described in her petition; that the car had stopped for her to alight, when, without any notice to her, the said car suddenly started and threw her bodily out of the car; that she suffered, as the result of said fall, great bodily and mental pain, and that she was damaged by the said fall, all due to the carelessness of the conductor and motorman of the said car, and in the sum of $2,500; that the…
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