Rockford City Railway Co. v. Blake
Illinois Supreme Court
Appeal from the Appellate Court for the Second District;—heard in that court on appeal from the Circuit Court of Winnebago county; the Hon. James Shaw, Judge, presiding.
1Per curiam
This was an action brought by Mason Blake, a boy twelve years old, against the Rockford City Railway Company to recover for an injury resulting in the loss of a leg on the night of July 12, 1892. On a trial before a jury plaintiff recovered a judgment for $2000, which, on appeal, was affirmed in the Appellate Court.
It appears from the evidence that about nine o’clock on the night of the accident, Louis C. Blake, a brother of the plaintiff, was riding a pony on the streets of Rockford. He came near where the plaintiff and another boy, Roy Warren, were sitting near a post, and got off. The pony…
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