Eilers v. Peoria Railway Co.

Alice Eilers, the appellee, a girl seventeen years old, was in the nighttime a passenger on a southbound street car of the appellant company- in the City of Peoria. As the car stopped, according to its custom, at the far side of an intersecting street, she alighted from the rear and after it started walked diagonally across the track on which she had been riding and an intervening space between that track and appellant’s northbound track, and as she stepped upon the northbound track was struck and injured by a northbound car. She, by her next friend, brought this action to recover for that…