Paris v. East St. Louis Railway Co.

The defendant below appeals from a judgment of the circuit court of St. Clair county awarding the plaintiff below damages of $500 in an action for negligence.

Defendant moved in arrest of judgment upon the ground that neither count of the declaration stated a cause of action. The denial of this motion is assigned as error.

Count one of the declaration alleged that the defendant was a common carrier of passengers, engaged in the business of carrying passengers for hire, by means of motorbuses which the defendant operated over the streets of the City of East St. Louis, and particularly over…