Cicero & Proviso Street Railway Co. v. Hughes

Appellant operated a single track electric street railway in St. Charles avenue, an east and west highway in the village of Maywood, Illinois. This track when it reaches 19th avenue, a north and south paved street in the same village, turns by a curve to the south until it unites with and ends in a single track, also operated by appellant, lying in the last named avenue.' A car going west in St. Charles avenue is run around the curve and is stopped when it has cleared the curve and is wholly on the 19th avenue track. The power is then reversed and the car is run north two short blocks to a…