Gottlob v. North Jersey Street Railway Co.

The opinion of the court was delivered by

Fort, J.

In this case there was a direction by the trial court of a verdict for the defendant. In this we think there was error. The agreed case certified by the court shows that the appellants were passengers on an open trolley car of the defendant; that as this ear approached the west side of Market street, in Newark, coming southerly on Washington-, street, it stopped at the cross-walk for passengers to board or alight; that persons got on the car as it stopped or was coming to a stop; that the plaintiff Ellen N. Gottlob, after the bell had been…