Foley v. Chicago City Railway Co.

Appellant contends that the defendant was not guilty of negligence and that the plaintiff was guilty of contributory negligence.

The accident occurred about eleven o’clock at night. The motorman testified that he met the north bound car about midway between Sixty-fourth and Sixtvfifth streets, and then sounded his gong twice, that he did not sound the gong again until he saw plaintiff on the track about twenty feet ahead of Ms car; that his car was then about forty feet south of Sixty-fifth street; that the speed of his car was ten or eleven miles per hour, and that he made no effort to check…