Wallner v. Chicago Consolidated Traction Co.

The defendant in error, while a passenger upon a street car of the Chicago Consolidated Traction Company, the plaintiff in error, was injured by a collision with a train of the Chicago, Milwaukee and St. Paul Railroad Company. He sued both corporations in an action on the case. The plaintiff in error appeared and filed the general issue. The railroad company did not appear, and the cause, on the motion of the defendant in error, was discontinued as to it. On a trial the defendant in error recovered a judgment against the plaintiff in error, which the Appellate Court affirmed. The only…