Case ID: ill-app_185/html/0274-01.html
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Date Created: 2024-08-24T03:29:51.129683

Bertha Voegeli, Appellee, v. Chicago City Railway Company, Appellant.
    Gen. No. 18,824.
    (Not to he reported in full.)
    Appeal from the Superior Court of Cook Couuty; the Hon. Albbbt C. Babnes, Judge, presiding.
    Heard in this court at the October term, 1912.
    Affirmed.
    Opinion filed March 9, 1914.
    Statement of the Case.
    Action by Bertha Voegeli against Chicago City Railway Company to recover for personal injuries. Plaintiff claimed that the car on which she was a passenger stopped and most of the passengers got off; that she heard the conductor say: “This is as far as we go;” that she then got up, saying: “Then I have got to get off,” walked onto the front platform, took hold of the support or handle with her right hand, stepped down on the step, and as she was about to step to the ground the car suddenly started with such violence as to throw her to the ground, breaking the neck of her left femur. From a judgment in favor of plaintiff for two thousand five hundred dollars, defendant appeals.
    
      Abstract of the Decision.
    Carriers, § 476*—when evidence sufficient in action for injuries to passenger. In an action for personal injuries claimed to have been caused by the sudden starting of the car on which plaintiff was a passenger, as she was in the act of alighting, the evidence was held sufficient to sustain a verdict for plaintiff.
    James Q-. Condon and Watson J. Ferry, for appellant ; Leonard A. Busby, of counsel.
    Bichard J. Finn, for appellee.
   Mr. Presiding Justice Baker

delivered the opinion of the court.