Toledo, Wabash & Western Railway Co. v. Maine
Illinois Supreme Court
Appeal from the Circuit Court of Morgan county; the Hon. Chables D. Hodges, Judge, presiding. This was an action on the case, brought by Charles H. Maine, against the Toledo, Wabash and Western Railway Company, for a personal injury received by him through the carelessness of the servants of the company, in unloading one of its cars.
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Appeal from the Circuit Court of Morgan county; the Hon. Chables D. Hodges, Judge, presiding. This was an action on the case, brought by Charles H. Maine, against the Toledo, Wabash and Western Railway Company, for a personal injury received by him through the carelessness of the servants of the company, in unloading one of its cars. The court instructed the jury, on behalf of the plaintiff, as follows: “That if the jury believe, from the evidence, that at the time of the alleged injury to'the plaintiff, said plaintiff was legally and rightfully upon the passenger platform of the defendant at…
1Opinion of the CourtJustice Sheldon
This was an action on the case, to recover damages for an injury received by the plaintiff below, while passing along on the passenger platform at Chapin station on the defendant’s road, towards the depot buildings for the purpose of ascertaining the time of departure of a certain train.
While so passing along, plaintiff was struck and injured by a piece of timber thrown from a box car standing on the track beside the platform, which car the employees of the company were at the time unloading.
Appellant,¡the defendant below, against whom judgment was recovered, assigns for error the giving of…
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