Campe v. Chicago City Railway Co.

Mr. Presiding Justice Adams

delivered the opinion of the court.

The declaration in this case contains four counts, in which it is averred, in substance, that, April 19, 1904, while the plaintiff’s intestate, Mary Lyon Rountree, was attempting to board one of the defendant’s street cars, which had stopped at the intersection of Thirty-first street and Wentworth avenue, in the city of Chicago, for the purpose of proceeding north on Went-worth avenue, the said car was negligently started, causing her to fall against the edge of the car platform, and injuring her so that, shortly thereafter, she…