Chicago, Rock Island & Pacific Railway Co. v. Kinnare

This suit was brought in the superior court of Cook county by the appellee, as administrator of the estate of Anthony Burns, deceased, to recover from the appellant damages for the death of his intestate. The declaration averred the employment by defendant of Anthony Burns as night watchman for its freight house at Taylor street, and alleged that defendant wrongfully, negligently and improperly ordered said Burns to go as a special police officer and arrest trespassers on appellant’s trains, thereby requiring him to get on and off moving cars; that this was outside of his contract of…