West Chicago Street Railroad v. Musa
Illinois Supreme Court
Appeal from the Branch Appellate Court for the First District;—heard in that court on appeal from the Superior Court of Cook county; the Hon. John Barton Payne, Judge, presiding. The action below was in case, by appellee, to recover for personal injuries.
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Appeal from the Branch Appellate Court for the First District;—heard in that court on appeal from the Superior Court of Cook county; the Hon. John Barton Payne, Judge, presiding. The action below was in case, by appellee, to recover for personal injuries. The negligence charged in the first count of the- declaration was, the servants of appellant in charge of a train of its street cars carelessly and negligently managed the train, and by reason of such negligence the cars with great force ran upon and struck a wagon in which the appellee was riding and overturned the wagon, and threw the…
1Opinion of the CourtJustice Boggs
The testimony as to the cause of the accident was in conflict. That for the appellee was, he was driving- his wagon, with ordinary care, in the street on thentrack of appellant’s road, and that a train of appellant’s cars approached from the fear, running at a high rate of speed, and without reasonable warning ran into the wagon, overturned it and threw him to the pavement of the street and under the fragments of the wagon. That for appellant was, that appellee was driving- his wagon along the street by the side of the track of the appellant’s line of road and turned his vehicle onto the…
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