Fogelsong v. Peoria Railway Terminal Co.

The appellant is a railroad corporation operating cars propelled by electric power on certain streets in the City of Peoria. The ordinance of that city licensing such operation provides that it should not run its cars at a speed greater than fifteen miles per hour. On December 27, 1914, the appellee, Everett Fogelsong, a boy eight and a half years old, was with other boys coasting .down Chicago street to and across Washington street in a densely populated portion of said city. He was going to the crossing of said two streets for the purpose of standing on Washington street to warn his…