Frick v. Aurora, Elgin & Chicago Railway Co.
Appellate Court of Illinois
Action in ease for personal injuries. Appeal from the Circuit Court of Kane county; the Hon. Duane J. Carnes, Judge, presiding. Heard in this court at the October term, 1909.
1Opinion of the CourtJustice Thompson
August Frick brought this suit in case to recover damages for injuries sustained by him on November 26,1906, while he was a passenger on the electric interurban railway of defendant. The declaration contains three counts. The first avers that the defendant “so negligently and improperly operated and managed” its car “that by and through the negligence, unskillfulness and mismanagement of the said defendant” the car was violently thrown from the railway, whereby, etc. The second count avers that the defendant was negligent in that it operated said car at a great and dangerous rate of speed.…
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