Elmore v. Cummings

Defendant, Chicago Surface Lines, appeals from a judgment against it for $3,000, entered in a personal injury action upon a complaint charging that defendant’s streetcar was negligently started or moved while plaintiff was boarding it.

The errors assigned and argued are that the verdict is against the manifest weight of the evidence and that the trial court erred in giving, refusing and modifying certain instructions.

Plaintiff testified that as she was boarding the streetcar at a regular stopping place, the car having stopped and the door being open, she stepped upon the first step and was…