Lake Shore & M. S. Ry. Co. v. Dylinski
Appellate Court of Illinois
Action for Damages.—Death from negligence. Appeal from the Superior Court of Cook County; the Hon. Philip Stein, Judge, presiding.
1Opinion of the CourtJustice Gary
The appellee is the administrator of Joseph Dylinski, who was a laborer for the appellant, and was killed on the road on the morning of September 26, 1892.
He, with two companions, had, for something more than two months, worked for the appellant on the tracks westward several miles from South Chicago, where they resided. They went to, and returned from, their labor upon a handcar. It was a necessity of that mode of conveyance that they should be on the watch for, and get out of the way of, a train approaching from behind, as they ran the handcar upon that track of a double track upon which…
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