Bell v. Hannibal & St. Joseph Railroad

This was a suit to recover damages under the 2nd section of the damage act, based on the allegation that the plaintiff’s son, Athen Bell, was killed by the negligence of the defendant’s agents, in running a train through the town of Meadville, at an improper rate of speed and without giving timely notice of its approach.

It seems that Athen Bell, who was past fifteen years old, and well grown for his age, had, at the request of bis father, who had recently moved from Saline county into that neighborhood, gone to Meadville to procure some corn, and that about two o’clock in the afternoon, when…