Cowen v. East St. Louis & Suburban Railway Co.

This is an appeal from the Circuit Court of St. Clair county. The trial in the Circuit Court resulted in a verdict and judgment for the appellee in the amount of $6000, to reverse which this appeal is prosecuted. The appellant is engaged in operating street cars between East St. Louis, Illinois, and St. Louis, Missouri, over the Eads Bridge. On the evening of October 11, 1910, about the hour of sis o’clock, the appellee became a passenger on one of appellant’s street cars near the east end of the bridge, to be carried to the St. Louis side. This car was provided with two long seats for…