Chicago, Rock Island & Pacific Railway Co. v. Jones

Mr. Presiding Justice Willis

delivered the opinion of the court.

This is an action on the case brought by appellee, Elmer E. Jones, against appellant, the Chicago, Bock Island & Pacific Bailway Company, to recover for personal injuries sustained by him by being struck by a passenger train of appellant while crossing its track on a public highway near Joliet Mound in Will county. Upon the trial appellee obtained a verdict for $1,600. After a long delay, occasioned, the briefs state, by the sickness and death of the trial judge, a motion for a new trial on the transcript of the evidence and…