Chicago & Northwestern Railway Co. v. Trayes

From the testimony of the various witnesses in this case it appears, that on the dark and stormy evening of the 25th of November, 1883, while the atmosphere was saturated with rain drops and sleet, “ which froze as they fell,” and the moon, which lacked but three days of being full, shone bright and clear from unclouded skies through a balmy air several degrees above the freezing point, the appellants backed a locomotive and tender eastward on the north track on Kinzie street, across Bobey street, in Chicago, and struck the appellee, who was crossing Kinzie street on Bobey from the northwest…