Shafer v. Harvey

TRIMBLE;, J. —

Plaintiff boarded one of the cars of the Metropolitan Street Railway Company then being operated by the defendant receivers. ■ Before she had time to become seated, so the petition alleges, the *503car was negligently and violently started with a great jerk throwing plaintiff down and injuring her. The petition charges that the “back, spine, ribs and all of the internal organs of plaintiff were seriously injured, and the body and limbs of the plaintiff severely bruised and wounded, causing the plaintiff great pain in body and mind, and impairing the strength, activity and vitality…