Amann v. Chicago Consolidated Traction Co.

This is an action on the case begun in the circuit court of Cook county by appellee for an alleged malicious and wanton assault upon him while a passenger on a street car of appellant, by the conductor. On the trial the plaintiff testified that he was a passenger on the car and desiring to get off signaled his intention to do so, but the car did not stop and he pulled the bell-cord, whereupon the conductor ran back on the foot-board to the place where the plaintiff was sitting, took him around the neck and threw him off the car and both fell to the ground, and the conductor used obscene…