Lake Erie & Western Railway Co. v. Zoffinger

On the fifth day of July, 1880, appellee was in the city of Bloomington," having arrived there on the previous night from his home in Minier. About nine o’clock at night he started for the union depot at the crossing of the Chicago & Alton and the Indiana, Bloomington & Western Railroads, but, losing his way, he got on the track of the latter road and was run over by one of appellant’s trains. The accident resulted in the loss of his right arm and his right leg, for which damage he" brought suit and recovered the judgment from which this appeal is taken.

At the intersection of Washington and…