Pittman v. Chicago & Eastern Illinois Railroad
Illinois Supreme Court
Appeal from the Appellate Court for the Second District ;—heard in that court on appeal from the Circuit Court of Kankakee county; the Hon. Frank L. Hooper, Judge, presiding.
1Opinion of the CourtJustice Cartwright
On March 18, 1905, Harry M. Pittman was the conductor of a local freight train of the appellant, Chicago and Eastern Illinois Railroad Company, making trips each week day from Momence north to Dalton and back. He had a crew of an engineer, fireman and three brakemen. On the morning of that day he went north as usual from Momence, and at Grant Park was required to set two cars on the sidetrack,—one, a car of coal, to be set by the side of the boiler room of the Curtis brickyard plant, and the other, a car of wood, to be left at a wood-pile south of the boiler room. The main track ran nearly…
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