Chicago Union Traction Co. v. Straud

This is an appeal from a judgment of $4,000, recovered by appellee against appellant for its alleged negligent killing of appellee’s intestate, Anton Beranek, a boy fifteen and one-half years old at the time of his death.

The deceased was a passenger upon a train of electric cars, consisting of an open motor-car and a trailer, belonging to appellant and running north on Western avenue in the city of Chicago. There are two tracks on the street, the east one being used by the north-bound cars and the west one by the south-bound. The deceased boarded the train near Twenty-second street and seated…