Bennett v. Chicago City Railway Co.
Appellate Court of Illinois
Action in case for personal injuries. Appeal from the Superior Court of Cook county; the Hon. Arthur H. Frost, Judge, presiding.
1Opinion of the Court
Mr. Presiding Justice Baker
delivered the opinion of the court.
The case went to the jury on the first and third counts of the declaration, and appellant contends that neither of said counts states a cause of action.
The first count sets out the facts above stated as to the operation by the defendant of said two lines of street railways; avers that said two streets are public streets in the city of Chicago; that while a train of cars was going south in Cottage Grove avenue across Sixty-third street, the defendant, by its servants, etc., so negligently, etc., ran a car in Sixty-third street that…
2Cases cited8 opinions
- Chicago & Northwestern Railroad v. MorandaIllinois Supreme Court · 1879
- Joliet Steel Co. v. ShieldsIllinois Supreme Court · 1890
- Chicago City Railway Co. v. LeachIllinois Supreme Court · 1904
- Chicago & Alton Railroad v. SwanIllinois Supreme Court · 1898
- Bahr v. National Safe Deposit Co.Illinois Supreme Court · 1908
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- Irwin v. GouldNebraska Supreme Court · 1916