Vaughan v. Chicago Junction Railway Co.

This is an appeal from a judgment of the Circuit Court rendered in favor of Thomas Tobin as administrator of the estate of Dennis Vaughan, deceased, alleged to have lost his life by reason of the wrongful act of the defendant company.

The declaration is in three counts and charges in substance that on April 30, 1904, the deceased was in the employ of defendant as a switchman; that he was standing upon the footboard in front of a switch engine operated by defendant; that it became the duty of defendant to provide him a reasonably safe place to stand; that appellant negligently permitted said…