North Chicago Street R. R. v. Eldridge
Appellate Court of Illinois
Memorandum.—Action for injuries. In the Circuit Court of Cook County; the Hon.- Frank Baker, Judge, presiding. Declaration in case; plea, not guilty; trial by jury; verdict for plaintiff, $13,500; remittitur $3,500; judgment for $10,000; defendant appeals; heard in this court at the October term, 1893, and affirmed.
1Opinion of the CourtJustice Shepard
delivered the ofinioh of the Court.
The appellee was a passenger on the car of the appellant. The car was an open one, with seats running crossways, and was boarded and alighted from on the sides, at the end of the seats, by stepping on a foot-board suspended by iron bolts from the floor of the car, and running its entire length.
In the act of alighting from the car while it was standing-still, the bottom of her dress, as she says, caught upon a bolt, or something, that protruded above the floor of the car, and caused her to trip or stumble, or both, and fall to the ground, occasioning severe…
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