Mullen v. Springfield Street Railway Co.

The plaintiff’s intestate, Robert J. Mullen, a boy nine years and seven months old, with Joseph Rivers, another boy a little older with whom he was not acquainted, was riding at the hind end of a grain dealer’s business wagon along Chestnut Street in Springfield. A single track of the defendant’s electric railway was laid through the middle of the street. The driver sat on a seat at the forward end of the wagon, driving a single horse, and he had no knowledge of the presence of the boys who got upon the wagon without the permission of anybody. The plaintiff’s intestate was on the wagon when…