Foreman Trust & Savings Bank v. Chicago Rapid Transit Co.

Edwin Dale Houghton (hereinafter called plaintiff), while standing on the platform of the Fullerton avenue station in Chicago, was struck by a passing express train owned and operated by defendant as part of its elevated railway system, and received injuries from which he died. His administrator brought suit against the defendant to recover compensation and at the conclusion of the evidence offered-by plaintiff the court instructed the jury orally to the effect that it was the law of Illinois that, where a person stands too close to a railroad train on a platform, as plaintiff did, he is…