Coburn v. Moline, East Moline & Watertown Railway Co.

One of the appellants owns and the other appellant operates a street and interurban electric railway from a point in the city of Moline easterly and northeasterly through the village of Bast Moline to the village of Watertown some miles distant. Appellee and Harry Carraher, brother-in-law of appellee and his partner in business, lived in Watertown and on the" evening of December 4, 1903, came to Moline over said interurban railway, and started to return on a car leaving the depot of appellants in Moline at 10 o’clock p. m. They got on at a point some distance east of the depot, where the car…