Chicago Union Traction Co. v. Jacobson

The appellee, Ears R. Jacobson, was driving a team drawing a heavy truck loaded with flour on West Twelfth street between the intersecting streets, Albany avenue and Whipple street, in the city of Chicago. He delivered a small quantity of the flour at a grocery store three doors east of Albany avenue and then turned his team across the street car track of appellant, the Chicago Union Traction Company. An electric car of appellant was approaching from the east in the vicinity of. Whipple street, the next street east. He saw the car, which was running at about the usual rate of speed, and was…