Wabash Western Railway Co. v. Friedman
Appellate Court of Illinois
Appeal from the Circuit Court of Cook County; the Hon. S. P. McConnell, Judge, presiding.
1Opinion of the CourtGary, J.
This is an action on the case by the appellee against the appellant, in which he has recovered $30,000 for injuries sustained by him through the alleged negligence of the appellant. On the 1st day of May, 1888, about five o’clock in the morning, a sleeping car, run by the appellant, was, by reason of a broken rail, derailed and partly overturned, and the appellee, who was asleep in a berth in the car, thrown across the car into a berth opposite.
From that as a cause, he and his witnesses trace injuries which render the residue of the life of a business man, of the age of twenty-two years, then…
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