North Chicago Street Railroad v. Louis

The undisputed facts of this case are, that about three o’clock in the afternoon of September 28, 1887, the appellee, a woman fifty years old, accompanied by a boy of five years of age, approached a Lincoln avenue car of the appellants, standing at the east side of the crossing of Cleveland avenue, to receive passengers going toward the center of the city, for the purpose of taking passage on the car. Lincoln avenue is a northwest and southeast street.

While she was approaching the car, a pair of horses with the whiffietree dangling at their heels, were running away and approaching the same…