Chicago City Railway Co. v. Bruley

This was an action on the case commenced by the appellee, against appellant, in the circuit court of Cook county, to recover damages for a personal injury alleged to have been sustained by her by being run over and injured by one of appellant’s cars, which jumped its track at Thirty-first street and Center avenue, in the city of Chicago, near where appellee had gone with a view to board said car as a passenger. The case was tried upon a declaration containing four counts, which alleged the cause of the derailment was an open switch. The general issue was filed, and upon a trial the jury…