Jelinek v. Omaha & Council Bluffs Street Railway Co.

Action to recover damages for personal injuries alleged to have been caused plaintiff by the negligence of the defendant street car company. On the trial in the district court for Douglas county the plaintiff had the verdict, and judgment, and the defendant has appealed.

It appears that plaintiff, on the morning of January 24,1911, met with an accident in alighting from one of defendant’s cars, west-bound on Cuming street, in the city of Omaha, at a point between Twenty-first and Twenty-second streets. It was alleged in plaintiff’s petition, in substance, that he had proceeded to the car steps…