Railroad Co. v. Smith

This is an action for damages for personal injuries. It was tried before a jury in the court below, and there was a verdict and judgment for $1,000. There was an error in the original judgment, for which it was re*199versed by this court, and on remand the judgment was corrected. The railroad company has appealed and assigned errors.

The facts, so far as necessary to be stated, are that plaintiff was a young lady nineteen years of age, and resided with her father at Brighton, a station seven miles south of Covington on the Illinois Central Railroad. She went to Covington on the twenty-ninth of…