Appellate Division of the Supreme Court of the State of New York October 22, 1908 (Woods v. New York & Queens County Railway Co.)

Miller, J.:

The plaintiff sues to recover damages for personal injuries which, she asserts, were caused by the negligence of the defendant’s servants in suddenly starting a car which she was attempting to board. Her version of the accident is that she had put one foot on the running.board and had taken hold of the handle or stanchion at the .