Bauer v. Illinois Central Railroad

Opinion of the Court by

Chiep Justice Hobson

Affirming.

Green street in Louisville runs east and west; Fourteenth street runs north and south. There are two railroad tracks .on Fourteenth street. Rudolph Bauer lived on the south side of Green street in the second house west of Fourteenth street. As he was crossing Fourteenth street about seven o’clock in the evening in March, 1909, he was struck by the tender of an engine of the Illinois Central Railroad Company, and received injuries to recover for which he brought this action. .On the first trial of the case he recovered a verdict for $1,200.…