Fowler v. Chicago & Western Indiana Railroad

This is an action brought by Henry A. Fowler, as administrator of the estate of Thomas Booney, deceased, to recover damages for the killing of said Booney by a passenger train operated by the Chicago & Erie Bailroad Company upon the elevated tracks of the Chicago & Western Indiana Bailroad Company in the city of Chicago. The deceased was seventeen years of age and was a trespasser on the tracks at the time. The two railroad companies were made defendants, and the jury returned a verdict against both, assessing plaintiff’s damages at four thousand, five hundred dollars, and the court, after…