Elgin, Joliet & Eastern Railway Co. v. Reese

This was an action on the case to recover damages for the killing of eighteen head of cattle belonging to appellee by one of appellant’s trains of cars, at the intersection of its railroad with a public highway known as Pomeroy’s crossing, between the village of Barrington and Lake Zurich, in Lake county, in this State. There was a verdict and judgment for appellee for $720.

The negligence charged in the declaration was a failure to , give the statutory signals; running the train at a high and dangerous rate of speed and improper management of the train.

On the afternoon of July 16, 1895, Miss…