West Chicago Street Railroad Co. v. Krueger

November 13, 1893, the appellee was a single woman, aged twenty-five years, and a passenger upon the Milwaukee avenue line of cable cars of the appellant. Part of the construction of the road consists of manholes about—as the rvitness for the appellant testified—one hundred feet apart between the slot rail and the side rail, “used to clean out the cable.” Such holes have a movable cover of iron, variously described as from two to five feet long—the latter being probably nearest the fact.

She was standing in a crowded car, as were about a dozen others, holding on to a strap—the car going…