Stebel v. Connecticut Co.
Supreme Court of Connecticut
Action by a passenger upon a trolley-car to recover damages for personal injuries alleged to have been caused by the defendant’s negligence, brought to the Superior Court in New Haven County and tried to the jury before Gager, Jthe court, upon motion of the defendant, directed a verdict in its favor, from the judgment upon which the plaintiff appealed.
1Opinion of the CourtBeach, J.
The plaintiff was injured by her dress catching and throwing her to the ground as she was stepping off the running-board of an open trolley-car after it had stopped.
The only evidence of negligence on the defendant’s part consisted of photographs of the car, and those showed that the running-board, used by passengers in getting on and off the car, was constructed with a riser or toe-board between the floor of the car and the back edge of the running-board, which riser was made in three sections with openings between the sections. The testimony was that the plaintiff’s skirt caught in or about…
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