Anderson v. Chicago City Railway Co.

The Chicago City Railway Company, defendant below, seeks by this writ of error to reverse a judgment rendered against it in the Municipal Court for $400 for so negligently operating one of its street cars as to run into William Anderson, a boy ten years old, resulting in a broken leg.

The errors assigned are, that the verdict is against the weight of the evidence, that the boy was guilty of contributory negligence, and that the court erred in permitting the boy’s mother to testify that his “habits were good” before the accident and that he'had never before been injured by defendant’s cars.

The…