Hirshberg v. Cummings

Plaintiff brought an action against defendants to recover damages for personal injuries sustained by her as a result of the claimed negligence of defendants’ motorman in the operation of a street car in which plaintiff was a passenger. There was a jury trial, a verdict and judgment of $5,000 and defendants appeal.

The record discloses that about 10 minutes, to 9 on the morning of December 2, 1940, plaintiff, a woman about 55 years of age, boarded one of defendants’ street cars which was being operated in a southwesterly direction on 5th avenue, Chicago. She entered at the front of the car,…