Lake Shore & Michigan Southern Railway Co. v. Ward

This was an action on the case, brought by Annie Ward against the Lake Shore and Michigan Southern Railway Company, to recover damages for a personal injury to the plaintiff, inflicted upon her by one of the defendant’s locomotive engines, at or near the crossing of the defendant’s railway tracks over Boot (42d) street, Chicago. . At the place where said injury occurred, the defendant has three main tracks running north and south parallel with each other, the one farthest east being • known as the “New Main Track,” the middle one as the “In . Main Track,” and the one farthest west as the “Out…