North Chicago St. R. R. v. Anderson

Mr. Presiding Justice Shepard

delivered the opinion of the Court.

This appeal is from a judgment for $10,000, entered after a remittitur of $7,500, from the verdict of a jury, in an action brought by the appellee to recover for injuries sustained by her through the alleged negligence of the appellant in suddenly'starting one of its cable trains while the appellee was in the act of getting upon a car of said train, which had stopped to take on passengers and was at a stand when she started to get aboard.

The defense was, mainly, that the train had started before appellee began to get aboard, and…