West Chicago Street Railroad v. Carr

In the afternoon, June 30, 1893, the appellee, a middle-aged married woman, was a passenger in an open car of the appellant which was rounding the curve from the west to the north at the intersection of Harrison—an east and west ■street—with Fifth avenue—a north and south street. At the same time a heavily loaded wagon, going in the opposite direction, was rounding the same curve. Each being on the right hand—to itself—track of the double track railway, it is obvious that the ends of the wagon, and the middle of the car were, in rounding the curve, each nearer to the track the other was on,…