Cicero & Proviso St. Ry. Co. v. Boyd
Appellate Court of Illinois
Trespass on the Case. — Death from negligent act. Appeal from the Circuit Court of Cook County; the Hon. Richard W. Clifford, Judge, presiding. Heard in this court at the October term, 1900. Statement by the Court. — Alfred Camp, a boy aged seven years and nine months, on September 29, 1894, was run over by one of appellant’s electric cars on that day, at the intersection of West Lake and West Fifty-second streets, Chicago, and so injured that he soon thereafter died.
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Trespass on the Case. — Death from negligent act. Appeal from the Circuit Court of Cook County; the Hon. Richard W. Clifford, Judge, presiding. Heard in this court at the October term, 1900. Statement by the Court. — Alfred Camp, a boy aged seven years and nine months, on September 29, 1894, was run over by one of appellant’s electric cars on that day, at the intersection of West Lake and West Fifty-second streets, Chicago, and so injured that he soon thereafter died. His administrator, the appellee, brought suit to recover damages for the next of kin, composed of the father, mother and eight…
1Opinion of the CourtJustice Winces
It is said that the evidence does not sustain the verdict, and in this regard it is argued that the evidence fails to show that appellant was guilty of any negligence in the operation of its car at the time in question, by reason of its speed. The declaration charges in substance that the negligence was in the operating of the car “ with great speed, to wit, fifteen miles an hour.”
It appears from the evidence that the intersection of West Lake and West Fifty-second streets, the place where the accident occurred, was, at the time, the terminus of the Lake Street Elevated Railway, the stairs of…
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