Orr v. Cedar Rapids & Marion City Railway Co.

The defendant is a corporation owning and operating an electric street railway in the city of Cedar Rapids. One of its lines runs along Third street, from north to south; crossing, among other streets, Sixth avenue, which runs east and west. 'Between 7 and 8 o’clock in the morning of the twenty-third day of January, 1892, plaintiff, who was riding in an open, one-horse wagon, seated upon a high, spring seat, came down Sixth avenue, with his horse on a trot, 'going towards the west, in the direction of Third street. The morning was cold, and quite a frost was hanging to the trees and exposed…