Slocum v. Peoria Railway Co.

Appellee, Georgia Slocum, was in the evening of December 29, 1911, a passenger on a street car of the appellant company in Peoria, Illinois; she was going home and desired to alight at the crossing of Armstrong avenue; that crossing was paved, but the street on which the car was proceeding was beyond that point in a rough condition occasioned by work that had been done thereon and suspended previous to this time because of freezing weather; she told the conductor she wished to alight on Armstrong avenue but he ran the car fifty feet or more past the avenue to a siding and then stopped; she…