Chicago City Railway Co. v. Wilcox
Illinois Supreme Court
Appeal from, the Appellate Court for the First District;— heard in that court on appeal from.the Circuit Court of Cook county; the Hon. Richard S. Tuthill, Judge, presiding.
1Opinion of the CourtJustice Bailey
This was an action on the case, brought by Frank Wilcox, an infant, by his next friend, against the Chicago City Bail-way Company, to recover damages for a personal injury. The declaration alleges that, on the 21th day of June, 1887, the plaintiff was passing along Harmon court in the city of Chicago at its crossing over the defendant’s railway on Wabash avenue; that the defendant, by its servants, was then and there running on said railway a train of cars drawn by cables running underneath the surface of said avenue, and that while the plaintiff, with all due care, was passing along Harmon…
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