Chicago, M. & St. P. Ry. Co. v. Walsh
Appellate Court of Illinois
Memorandum.—Action for personal injuries. Appeal from the Circuit Court of Cook County; the Hon. Richard W. Clifford, Judge, presiding. Heard in this court at the October term, 1893, and affirmed.
1Opinion of the Court
Mr. Presiding Justice Shepard
delivered the opinion of the Court.
The appellee was distressingly injured on December 20, 1890, by being run upon by a freight train while attempting to cross appellant’s railroad tracks at the crossing of them by Chicago avenue, a public street in Chicago.
As a result of the injury appellee lost his left arm by necessary amputation above the elbow, and the second, third and little fingers, and the heel and palm, of his right hand.
■ He was a plumber’s laborer by occupation, and earned average wages of fifteen dollars a week, and was thirty-five years of age at the…
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