Hurt v. Illinois Central R. R.

Opinion of the Court by

Chief Justice Hobson

Affirming.

Mrs. Bessie Hurt brought this suit against the Illinois Central Eailroad Company alleging in her petition that after she had bought a ticket from McHenry to Horton, Kentucky, she attempted to board the train when it stopped at McHenry for the purpose of taking on passengers, and while she wás making the attempt and before she had entered or had time to enter the car and while she was on the steps ascending from the platform to the car “the defendant’s agents and servants in the control of the train wrongfully, unlawfully and with gross…