North Chicago Street Railroad v. Leonard

Mr. Presiding Justice Shepard

delivered the opinion of the Court.

This appeal is from a judgment for $3,750, entered upon a verdict for that amount, in an action brought by the appellee against the appellant to recover damages for an injury sustained by her as a passenger, caused by the sudden starting of one of appellant’s cars, which had stopped for her to get aboard, while she was in the act of getting upon it.

The testimony of the appellee as to the manner of her getting hurt was not contradicted by any evidence offered in behalf of appellant, and the issue as to whether the injury was the…