Appellate Court of Illinois, 1914

Achterberch v. Chicago City Railway Co.

Achterberch v. Chicago City Railway Co.
Appellate Court of Illinois · Decided May 25, 1914 · McSurely
187 Ill. App. 256; 1914 Ill. App. LEXIS 672

Achterberch v. Chicago City Railway Co.

Opinion of the Court

Mr. Justice McSurely

delivered the opinion of the court.

Abstract of the Decision. Stbeet bailboads, § 86*—when recovery for injuries resulting from collision with wagon sustained by the evidence. In an action against a street railway company to recover for injuries sustained by plaintiff resulting- from a collision between a street car and a horse and wagon driven by plaintiff, where plaintiff’s evidence tended to show that plaintiff was driving on a street car track and before he could turn his horse off the track a car approaching from behind struck the wagon causing the horse to jump across the track, and that the car was going from eighteen to twenty-five miles an hour, and did not slacken its speed, held that a judgment in favor of plaintiff was sustained by the evidence, there being conflicting stories as to how the accident happened.

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