Brink's Chicago City Express Co. v. Brophy

The defendant in error was plaintiff and the plaintiff, in error defendant in the trial court, and will be so referred to in this opinion.

The claim of the plaintiff is for injury to her person, alleged to have been caused by the negligence of the defendant, acting by its agent.

April 26, 1906, the plaintiff went to defendant’s office, in the city of Chicago, and left with defendant an order to call at the store of Rothschild & Co., in said city, for a chair and wheel and deliver the same at her residence, 209 Park avenue, Chicago, and paid, in-advance, for the delivery, fifty cents. In the…