Illinois Central Railroad v. Slater

Arthur B. Slater and Lewis Slater, brothers, and the children of Belford Slater, were both struck and killed on the 24th of August, 1886, by a locomotive engine drawing a passenger train on appellant’s road near Polo at Brand’s crossing. Arthur was about nine years old and Lewis about thirteen when they were killed. On the morning of , the day of the accident, Belford Slater, the father, sent the two boys to Polo, something over a mile distant from home, with a team and wagon, to get a barrel of buttermilk from the creamery. Arthur had been going to school, but on that day • bad a sore foot…