Feitl v. Chicago City Railway Co.

Plaintiff in error sued defendant in error, alleging that defendant in error was guilty of negligence in causing the death of plaintiff’s intestate, Hynek Peitl, deceased. The parties will be referred to, respectively, as plaintiff and defendant. About 7:15 o’clock in the evening of March 3, 1901, a trolley car running east on Forty-seventh street, in the city of Chicago, collided with a buggy, in which the deceased and another person were riding, on the track on which the car was running, a short distance (variously estimated by the witnesses from fifty to one hundred and twenty-five feet)…