McCoy v. Omaha & Council Bluffs Street Railway Co.

Flansbukg, C.

Action for damages resulting from injuries sustained by the- plaintiff while she was a passenger on one of the *469defendant’s street cars. At the close of the plaintiff’s testimony, the court directed a verdict for the defendant. Plaintiff appeals.

Plaintiff was a passenger on defendant’s street car at about 9 o’clock in the evening of November 6, 1917. She was then about 53 years of age, and weighed 185 pounds. Her eyesight, she said, was failing so that she had to wear glasses to read. She signaled for the car to stop, rose from her seat, near the middle of the car, and proceeded…