Altwein v. Metropolitan Street Railway Co.

The opinion of the court was delivered by

Smith, J.:

This is an action to recover damages for personal injuries alleged to have been suffered by the plaintiff while she was a passenger upon the defendant’s street car in Kansas City, Kan.. In her petition she claims' that while she was a passenger upon such street car, the car approached the intersection of Eleventh street and Minnesota avenue and came to a standstill; that thereupon she alighted therefrom, and as she stepped on the lower step of the car it was care-jessly, negligently and violently started .forward by the motorman in charge…