John Blaauw, a Minor, by Gerhard Blaauw, His Father and Next Friend, and Gerhard Blaauw v. Grand Trunk Western Railroad Company, a Corporation

KILEY, Circuit Judge.

The questions presented are whether the district court erred in denying plaintiffs’ 1 motion for a new trial on the ground that the verdict for defendant in plaintiffs’ personal injury suit was contrary to the “manifest weight of evidence”; and whether the court erred in deciding as a matter of law that the defendant railroad had no duty under a Chicago ordinance to fence its right-of-way. We think the court did not err in either ruling.

At the place of the injury, in the vicinity of 77th Place and Central Park Avenue in Chicago, defendant’s right-of-way consisted of two…