Donelson v. East St. Louis & Suburban Railway Co.

Mr. ChiER Justice Cartwright

delivered the opinion of the court:

The defendant in error, Henry Donelson, Jr., a newsboy, twelve years old, was returning to his home in the city of East St. Louis at about six o’clock in the evening on February 17, 1905, and alighted from a street car of the plaintiff in error, the East St. Louis and Suburban Railway Company, at the intersection of Eighth street with Missouri avenue, on which the car was running. There were double tracks on Missouri avenue, and the cars going east used the south track and the cars going west the north track. The car on which he…