Dallas Railway & Terminal Co. v. Hendricks

BOND, Chief Justice.

Ida May Hendricks recovered judgment in a district court of Dallas County, Texas, against Dallas Railway & Terminal Company, for damages on account of personal injuries, medicine and doctor’s bills in the sum of $1,308, alleged to have been caused by negligence of the Railway Company, its agent and servant, in starting the street car, on which she was a passenger, with a sudden jerk, before she had a reasonable opportunity to seat herself or find a hand-hold, thereby throwing her forward on her stomach, across a twelve-inch “step *901up” or riser, from the vestibule into the…