Burge v. St. Louis, Springfield & Peoria Railroad

193 Ill. App. 492 | Ill. App. Ct. | 1915

Mr. Presiding Justice Eldredge

delivered the opinion of the court.

3. Cashiers, § 476*—when liable for injury to passenger in alighting from street car. Where a street car was stopped in the nighttime with its steps several feet from a cross walk at a point where the ground was lower than the walk, or slightly uneven, and a passenger in alighting missed her step and sprained her ankle, held that no negligence on the part of the carrier was shown.