Lundquist v. Chicago Railways Co.

The defendant in error brought suit against the plaintiffs in error to recover damages for personal injuries sustained by her while.attempting to alight from one of their street cars. The jury returned a verdict in her favor for $5500, and upon motion for a new trial a remittitur of $1000 was entered and judgment rendered on the verdict for $4500. Plaintiffs in error prosecuted their appeal to the Appellate Court for the First District, which court affirmed the judgment. The cause comes here on a writ of certiorari.

The defendant "in error, a woman over eighty years of age, was a passenger on…