Citizens Railway & Light Co. v. Forepaugh

One of the plaintiff’s street car lines extends along the center of East Second Street, in Muscatine, and the intersecting street known as Park Avenue. On the 20th of June, 1906, the three trains carrying defendant’s wagons,' animals, tent, and other materials essential to the public exhibition of * a circus and menagerie stopped and were unloaded at the railway crossing on East Second Street. The most direct route from there to the show ground to the east was on this street, level for a block and one-half to Mud Creek bridge, then upgrade nearly four blocks to the top of East Hill, and level…