Wyckoff v. Chicago City Railway Co.

The appellee, Aaron V. Wyckoff, Jr., became a passenger upon a south-bound cable train of the appellant, Chicago City Railway Company, on State street, in Chicago. The train consisted of a grip-car drawing two passenger cars and propelled by an iron bar called a "grip,” which passed from the grip-car down through a slot to a cable running in a conduit. Between Madison and Monroe streets the grip-iron stuck, and after a jerking motion the grip-car stopped although the cable continued to run. The train was running at the rate of five or six miles an hour and the passenger cars ran with much…