Cusimano v. N. O. Pub. Service, Inc.

This is a suit in damages for personal injuries by a passenger against the street railway company. The petition alleges that ¡plaintiff, while a passenger on defendant company’s street car, attempted to descend from the street car to the street after the car had stopped, but while alighting from the car, it prematurely started, throwing plaintiff into the street, causing painful and serious injury. The defendant admitted that plaintiff had been a passenger on the car and alleged that she was injured after alighting from the car, but denied that it was at fault, and especially alleged that her…