Chicago, Burlington & Quincy Railroad v. Hazzard

This is an action on the case brought by the plaintiff, a member of the bar of this court, against the Chicago, Burlington and Quincy Railroad Company. There are four counts in the declaration. In the first it is averred, in substance, that at the time of the alleged injury, the defendant was a body corporate, and was the owner and proprietor of a railroad extending through and from Kewanee, in said State, to Galesburg, in said county, with trains of cars running thereon for the conveyance of goods and passengers. That on the 29th June, 1860, the plaintiff, at Kewanee, became a passenger on…