West Chicago Street R. R. v. Manning

Mr. Presiding Justice Shepard

delivered the opinion of the Court.

This was a suit to recovey for personal injuries alleged to have been sustained by the appellee by being thrown to the ground when she was in the act of alighting from one of appellant’s cars upon which she was a passenger, by the sudden and negligent starting of the cable train, composed, in part, of said car, after it had come to a stop at the corner of Washington street and Fifth avenue, in the city of Chicago.

The verdict was for $5,000, from which $1,500 was remitted and judgment was entered for the balance.

There is no point…