Goldstein

This is an action for damages for personal injuries sustained while plaintiff was a passenger on a street-car of defendant. A verdict of $1,250 was returned in favor of plaintiff, and from the judgment following defendant appeals.

With relation to the circumstances of the accident the evidence shows: About midnight of November 30, 1917, plaintiff, accompanied by a woman friend, boarded a streetcar of defendant in front of the Ferry Building, in the city and county of San Francisco. The track at this place forms a loop or curve leading back into Market Street and away from the Ferry Building. The car in question stopped about the middle • of this loop. Plaintiff entered the car and was just about to be seated when it started around the loop to go out Market Street and she fell or was thrown to the floor, suffering the injuries complained of. The complaint alleges that the motorman turned on the electric current suddenly and with great force and strength, causing the ear to start or bound forward with great speed around the loop or curve, and that the sudden speed with which the car was started around the loop or curve caused plaintiff to be precipitated to the floor of the car,…