Wilson v. Chicago City Railway Co.

Appellant, a minor, sued appellee, by his next friend, for personal injuries occasioned, as he alleges, by appellee’s negligence. The material facts in the case are substantially as follows:

Wentworth avenue, a public street of the city of Chicago, lies north and south, and 71st and 72nd streets, in said city, are east and west streets, and cross Wentworth avenue at right angles. The appellee owns and operates cars on two tracks in Wentworth avenue. The east of said tracks is the north-bound, and the west one the south-bound track. The distance between the west rail of the sonth-bound track…