Donnelly v. Chicago City Railway Co.

This case is before this court a second time, and there have been two trials before the same judge in the court below. The opinion of this court on the prior appeal will be found reported in 131 Ill. App. 302.

The case arises out of a collision on March 29, 1897, between a hose carriage belonging to the Citv of Chicago, and an electric car of the appellant. The appellee’s theory of the accident and statement of the manner in which it occurred is as follows:

“About nine o’clock in the evening of the injury to Thomas Wren, an alarm of fire was received at the engine htmse where he was stationed,…