Hollgren v. Des Moines City Railway Co.

The defendant operates a street railway in Des Moines, and plaintiff is a resident of the same city. One of the railway tracks is laid along West Locust Street and across West Fourth Street. On the day in question, plaintiff was riding in a top buggy driven by another woman, Miss Sandell. They drove east on the south side of the track from Fifth Street toward Fourth Street, intending to there cross the track and proceed to the north on Fourth Street. As they approached Fourth Street, one of. the defendant’s cars came .on, moving in the same direction, but a little in the rear of ■the buggy,…