Burns v. Bellefontaine Railway Co.

The plaintiff recovered a judgment for damages growing out of injuries to plaintiff in getting off the front part of one of its cars. There seems to have been some defect in the brakes, so that in going down a steep grade the cars could not be stopped by the use of the brakes, and the defendant was seriously injured in trying to save himself by getting off the car. He was on the caías a free passenger, and when he entered the car he passed through it and stood with the driver, without any objection from him, on the front platform. When the horses commenced running, the *140driver jumped off to…