West Chicago St. R. R. v. McKeating
Appellate Court of Illinois
Trespass on the Case, for personal injuries. Appeal from the Circuit Court of Cook County; the Hon. Richard W. Clifford, Judge, presiding.
1Opinion of the Court
Mr. Presiding Justice Shepard
delivered the opinion of the Court.
In this case the jury returned a verdict for $10,000, from, which the trial court required $6,000 to be remitted, and judgment was entered for'$4,000.
The appellee was injured by being run upon and having his right leg broken by a cable car, operated by the appellant in a public street, at a time when he was about two years old.
At the time of the trial, which was about thirty-three months after the accident, the child’s .leg was well, so far as objective symptoms were shown, except, mainly, that it contained some scars on the…
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