Chicago City Railway Co. v. Wilcox

The case made by the appellee on the trial was that in June, 1887, the appellants had a double track street railway operated by an underground cable, on Wabash avenue, in Chicago. At the south side of Harmon Court, an intersecting street, the rear end of a south bound train on the west track had stopped. A north bound train on the east track entered upon the intersection of the streets just as the south bound train was starting southward. The appellee, then a child six years old, was on the west side of Wabash avenue, started to cross it on the south side of the intersection, and as he went…