Hughes v. Wabash Railroad

Mr. Presiding Justice O’Connor

delivered the opinion of the court.

This is an appeal by the defendant, Wabash Railroad Company, from a judgment of the circuit court of Sangamon county in favor of the plaintiff, Albert T.

Hughes, administrator of the estate of John D. Copeland, deceased, in the amount of $12,000, in a suit for damages for the death of John D. Copeland from injuries sustained when the automobile which he was driving was struck by one of the defendant’s trains.

The point most strenuously urged by the defendant for a reversal is that the evidence showed that the deceased was guilty…