Chicago & Alton Railroad v. City of Carlinville

This was a suit brought by the appellee, against the appellant, before a police magistrate, to recover a penalty for a violation of the following ordinance of the' city of Carlinville:

“Sec. 261. No railroad company, or conductor, engineer or other employee of such company managing or controlling any locomotive engine, car or train upon any railroad track, shall run, or permit to be run, within the limits of said city, any passenger train or car at a greater rate of speed than ten miles per hour, nor any freight train or car at a greater rate of speed than six miles per hour, under a penalty,…