Elgin City Railway Co. v. Salisbury

This is an action brought by appellee against the appellant company to recover damages for a personal injury. The plaintiff, at the time she was injured, was a passenger on one of defendant’s street cars, propelled by electricity, in the city of Elgin. The car, while running down grade, left the track and was precipitated over a high embankment, whereby appellee sustained permanent injuries. The negligence complained of was (using the language of the declaration) in running the cars “at a very high and fast rate of speed, to-wit, thirty miles per hour, which is a much greater rate of speed…