Chicago Union Traction Co. v. Lundahl
Appellate Court of Illinois
Action on the case for death caused by alleged wrongful act. Appeal from the Superior Court of Cook County; the Hon, Philip Stein, Judge, presiding, Heard in this court at the October term, 1908.
1Opinion of the CourtJustice Brown
This is an appeal from a judgment of the Superior Court in favor of appellee against appellant company for $3,500, rendered on the verdict of a jury.
The action was brought against the appellant for causing, by negligence, the death of the plaintiff’s intestate, a boy of the age of ten years, one Herbert S. Lundahl. The declaration charges that the boy was on November 16, 1901, in North Clark street at the corner of Elm street, using the said public highway as a pedestrian, for the purpose of becoming a passenger on one of the defendant’s cable cars on North Clark street, and while so on the…
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