Chicago & Eastern Illinois Railroad v. Boggs

On the morning of the 16th of July, 1883, •the appellee and her husband were driving along a highway which the appellant’s track crossed. As they neared the ■crossing, they heard a locomotive and train approaching, and they stopped until that train had passed. As soon as that train had cleared the highway, the appellee’s husband started the horses into a brisk trot, and attempted to cross the track, but the wagon was struck by a train which was following the one that had gone over the crossing, and the appellee was thrown out and seriously injured. There is a sharp conflict in the evidence as…