Standard Steel Works Co. v. Chicago, A. & E. R.

WILKERSON, District Judge.

This general claim is before the court ,on exceptions to the master’s report denying the claim for failure to prove negligence on the’part of the defendant. This claim, based upon the Wrongful Death Statute of Illinois, Ill.Rev.Stat.1937, c. 70, §§ 1, 2, is to recover damages for the death of Benny Boersema, an infant two and one-half years old. He was taken by his parents to the home of relatives near the tracks of the defendant railroad, and was •left playing in the yard with his three and one-half year old brother. He wandered •across the-street, over a vacant…