Chicago City Railway Co. v. Hagenback

At about eight o’clock in the evening of May 1, 1902, appellee, a teamster for Armour & Co., was driving a two-horse wagon, on which there were fifteen empty barrels covered with a dirty, white tarpaulin, south on Halsted street, in the city of Chicago, along the west track of appellant, on which south-bound cars were run, when a street car overtook him just north of Thirtieth street, and, striking the wagon in the rear, pushed it along about eleven feet. Appellee was thrown from his seat down between the horses and under the wagon, and when the car was stopped he was found at the rear of the…