West Chicago Street Railroad v. Johnson
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. Philip Stein, Judge, presiding".
1Opinion of the CourtJustice Phillips
A judgment for $3000 being affirmed in the Appellate Court, this appeal is prosecuted.
Defendant operates a cable car line, and the injuries sued for were received by appellee, then a boy about sixteen years of age, while a passenger on one of its cable cars, and were occasioned by the sudden flying back of an iron brake-lever, the end striking him on the leg. The car in which appellee was riding was a combination passenger and g"rip-car, partly divided by an aisle, in which ordinarily no one but the gripman stands and in which the levers controlling the car are operated. The Appellate Court…
2Cases cited3 opinions
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