Appellate Court of Illinois, 1914

Sylvester v. Bloomington & Normal Railway & Light Co.

Sylvester v. Bloomington & Normal Railway & Light Co.
Appellate Court of Illinois · Decided October 16, 1914 · Scholfield
190 Ill. App. 495

Sylvester v. Bloomington & Normal Railway & Light Co.

Opinion of the Court

Mr. Justice Scholfield

delivered the opinion of the court.

3. Street railroads, § 86*—care required in avoiding collision with animals and vehicle. Where, in an action to recover for the killing of a horse and the destruction of a wagon struck by defendant’s street car, it appeared that a team of horses were driven on the street railway tracks to avoid a rock pile, and that the car was coming from the rear at the rate of between thirty and thirty-five miles per hour, and that the headlight was but a 16-candle power reflector, in a rusted condition, by which an object could not be seen at a distance greater than twenty-five or thirty feet in front of the car, and that no bell was rung or whistle sounded, held the court erred in directing a verdict of not guilty.

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