Chicago, Rock Island & Pacific Railroad v. Moran

Mr. Presiding Justice Farmer

delivered the opinion of the court.

Michael F. Moran, a boy fourteen years and three months old, was engaged in peddling newspapers in the city of Joliet, mornings and evenings, before and after school. He was accustomed to go to the depot every morning to sell papers to passengers on a passenger train of appellant which arrived at Joliet at 5:20 from the west. Other boys were engaged in the same business and they would appoint certain coaches to each boy. They were in the habit of getting on the train when it stopped, to sell their papers. On the morning of January…