Spencer v. Chicago City Railway Co.
Appellate Court of Illinois
Appeal from the Superior Court of Cook county; the Hon. Joseph B. David, Judge, presiding. Heard in the Branch Appellate Court at the October term, 1919.
1Opinion of the Court
Mr. Presiding Justice Barnes
delivered the opinion of the court.
This is a personal injury suit wherein the plaintiff (appellee) obtained judgment for $5,000, from which defendants have appealed.
Plaintiff was a little girl 3 years old, wandering
alone on the public streets of Chicago when she was struck by one of defendants’ street cars at the intersection of Western avenue and North avenue. The former street runs north and south, the latter east and west. The car came from the north on the west track of Western avenue and stopped “at the usual place for letting passengers on and off” on the…
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- Kiley v. Boston Elevated Railway Co.Massachusetts Supreme Judicial Court · 1911
- Gould ex rel. Shadd v. Union Traction Co.Supreme Court of Pennsylvania · 1899
- Cords v. Third Avenue RailroadThe Superior Court of the City of New York and Buffalo · 1889