Terre Haute & Ind. R. R. v. Leeper
Appellate Court of Illinois
Trespass on the Case.—Death from negligent act. Appeal from the City Court of East St. Louis; the Hon. B. H. Caney, Judge, presiding. Heard in this court at the February term, 1895.
1Opinion of the CourtJustice Sample
The appellee recovered a judgment for $3,000 damages on account of the death of her intestate, occasioned, as alleged, by the negligence of appellant.
The declaration alleges that on the 25th day of February, L893, the deceased, William Leeper, a minor, seventeen years of age, was in the service of the defendant as a fireman on the locomotive engine of one of its said trains, and while his said engine and train were standing on the side track of defendant, at Montrose, about eight o’clock in the evening of said day, and while the said William Leeper was in the discharge of his duty as such…
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