Hanchett v. Haas

This is an action on the case commenced in the superior court of Cook county by the appellee, against the appellant, to recover for personal injuries.

At about six o’clock on the evening of April 3, 1900, Ernest Haas, a boy fourteen years old, alighted from a street car at the corner of Indiana avenue and Forty-Third street, in the city of Chicago, and started north-westerly towards the sidewalk. Appellant was driving a horse attached to a buggy eastward on the north side of Forty-Third street. The breast of the horse struck the boy on the head, knocking him down and inflicting the injuries…