Lake Shore & Michigan Southern Railway Co. v. Berlink

This was an action on the case brought by appellee against appellant to recover damages for a personal injury alleged to have been received by appellee, in consequence of the negligence of the agents and servants of appellant. At the time of the injury, appellee was a boy eleven or twelve years old, residing with his parents in the city of Chicago, about a block and a half distant from the point where appellant’s railroad crosses Harrison street. It appears that on the 2d day of September, 1874, at about eight o’clock in the evening, appellee was sent by his father on an errand to a point on…