Savage v. Chicago & Joliet Electric Railway Co.

On April 15, 1907, the appellant, Chicago and Joliet Electric Railway Company, was operating a street car line, in the village of Rockdale, in Will county. At about eleven o’clock at night Dominik Blasinouski came out of a saloon with a can of beer at the intersection of Moen and Midland avenues, in the village, and while crossing over the street car tracks was struck by a car and thrown a considerable distance on the street, causing a fracture of his skull and a broken clavicle. He was taken to a hospital, and 'while there was paid $50 and signed with his mark a release of any claim against…