Peoria, Pekin & Jacksonville Railroad v. Siltman

Appeal from the Circuit Court óf Mason county; the Hon. Charles Turner, Judge presiding. This was an action “on the case, by Gerhard H. Siltman against the Peoria, Pekin and Jacksonville Railroad Company, to recover for injury to the person and property of the plaintiff, caused by the engine- of the defendant striking the wiigon and team of plaintiff while in the act of crossing the railroad at a public crossing. The negligence charged was a failure to ring a bell or sound a whistle eighty rods before the train reached the crossing, and to continue such warning until the crossing was reached,…