Chicago & Northwestern Railway Co. v. Jamieson
Appellate Court of Illinois
Action on the case for death caused by alleged wrongful act. Appeal from the Superior Court of Cook County; the Hon. Philip Stein, Judge, presiding. Heard in this court at the March term, 1903.
1Opinion of the Court
Mr. Presiding Justice Adams
delivered the opinion of the court.
Appellee, as the administrator of George G. Jamieson, deceased, recovered judgment against appellant for the sum of $800, in an action on the case for causing, by negligence, the death of appellee’s intestate.
The declaration contains three counts, but the court instructed the jury that there could be no recovery under either of the first and second counts. In the third count an ordinance of the city of Chicago, which limits the rate of speed of railroad passenger trains within said city to ten miles per hour, is pleaded, and it is…
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