Coburn v. Moline, East Moline & Watertown Railway Co.

This is an action on the case brought by Matthew B. Coburn in the circuit court of Rock Island county against the Moline, East Moline and Watertown Railway Company and the Mississippi Valley Traction Company to recover damages on account of a personal injury sustained by him on the evening of December 4, 1903, while riding on one of the electric cars of the traction company going from Moline through the town of East Moline, to the village of Watertown. . The negligence charged in the declaration was that while appellee was a passenger on one of the cars, of appellants said car 'was so…