Chicago West Division Railway Co. v. Mills

On the 13th of May, 1875, the plaintiff, in company with a friend, (Mrs. Camp,) took passage on one of the defendant’s open summer cars, at a point on the southern part of its line, intending to go to a point some short distance south of the northern terminus of its line; but this intention was aban doned upon the coming up of a slight shower of rain, and they remained in the car, (intending to return home by it,) until it had been run to its northern terminus and returned south again as far as the corner of State and Randolph streets, when, the car stopping, the plaintiff and her friend,…