Indianapolis Street Railway Co. v. Lawn
Indiana Court of Appeals
From Superior Court of Marion County; J. L. McMaster, Judge. Action by Mary Lawn against the Indianapolis Street Railway Company. From a judgment for plaintiff, defendant appeals.
1Opinion of the CourtComstock, J.
Appellee brought this action to recover damages for personal injuries alleged to have been received by her by the negligent starting of one of appellant’s ears while she was alighting therefrom. The complaint was in one paragraph, and charged that the car upon which appellee was a passenger had stopped upon her signal at the corner of Washington and California streets, in the city of Indianapolis, for her to alight, and that while she was in the act of alighting, and had stepped, or was about to step, upon the running-board of such car, it was negligently and suddenly started, whereby she was…
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