Toolen v. Chicago Towel Supply Co.

This was an action on the case commenced in the superior court of Cook county by the plaintiff in error, against the defendant in error, to recover damages for causing the death- of Valentine Powers, plaintiff’s intestate. The declaration contained two counts, and the general issue was filed.

Valentine Powers, at the time he was injured, was seven years and ten months of age. At about nine o’clock on the morning of May 8, 1902, a servant of defendant was driving a horse hitched to a wagon, upon Blue Island avenue, near its intersection with Harrison and Halsted streets, in the city of Chicago.…