Illinois, Iowa & Minnesota Railway Co. v. Minnihan
Appellate Court of Illinois
Action in case for personal injuries. Appeal from the City Court of Aurora; the Hon. John L. Heaiy, Judge, presiding. Heard in this court at the April term, 1906.
1Opinion of the CourtJustice Willis
James Minnihan was at work as a common laborer in digging a ditch to lay a water main from the water mains of the city of DeKalb within the city limits to a piano factory outside the city limits. This ditch was being dug along a highway called Pleasant street and underneath the railway tracks of the C. & N. W. R. R. Co. and the C., G. W. R. R. Co. where they cross Pleasant street near each other.
Shortly after five o’clock p. m. of November 16,1904, Minnihan left his work and started in a northwesterly direction towards a certain shed. The Illinois, Iowa & Minnesota Railway Company was using a…
2Cases cited1 opinion
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