West Chicago Street Railroad v. Loewe
Appellate Court of Illinois
Trespass on tlie Case, for personal injuries. Appeal from the Circuit Court of Cook County; the Hon. Edmund W. Burke, Judge, presiding. Heard in this court at the March term, 1895.
1Opinion of the CourtJustice Shepard
On the oth of November, 1891, the appellee received the injuries for which this suit was brought, while alighting from an open grip car on one of the cable lines operated by the appellant in Chicago.
According to his testimony the appellee was thrown, by a sudden stop of the car, from the foot board of the car upon which he had stationed himself for the purpose of being-ready to step to the ground as soon as the car should stop in response to a notice or request that he had given to the conductor of his desire to alight.
He testified that he had never before ridden on a cable car; that when he…
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