Handtoffski v. Chicago Consolidated Traction Co.

Defendant in error, Frank Handtoffski, herein designated as plaintiff, brought an action in case on September 2, 1907, in the superior court of Cook county, against Marshall F. Sampsell, receiver of the Chicago Union Traction Company, for personal injuries received by him, alleged in the declaration to have been caused by the negligence of said company’s agents in suddenly starting with a jerk a certain car which plaintiff was then boarding as a passenger, and by the negligence of said receiver in not keeping the handle-bars which plaintiff caught hold of in boarding said car securely…