Schwake v. Chicago, Milwaukee & St. Paul Railway Co.

Mr. Presiding Justice Jones

delivered the opinion of the court.

The appellee railway company has a bridge south of the City of Elgin and over a small stream known as Poplar creek. The abutments are on the east and west sides of the creek. Upon these abutments rest-steel girders to which a large steel1 “pan” is suspended. In this pan are laid the ties and rails of the tracks. Between the rails and filling the entire pan to a flush surface is gravel and other material of like character. The bridge is forty feet long and twenty feet wide. There are three sets of tracks ruiming across the bridge,…