Joliet Street Railway Co. v. McCarthy

Mary McCarthy sued the Joliet Street Railway Company and recovered judgment for $700. The evidence proved that she was riding on one of the company’s cars as a passenger when the car was uncoupled on a grade from a motor car by which it was being drawn, and when so uncoupled it ran rapidly backward down the grade entirely free from control. There were a great many passengers on the car with her and there was much excitement and confusion. She got off by being pulled or jumping off the car, and her shoulder was dislocated and her side injured.

The court at the instance of appellee gave to the…