Heiting v. Chicago, Rock Island & Pacific Railway Co.

The appellee was a boy ten years and two months old. He lived with his parents on the corner of Peoria and 96th streets, Chicago, and had lived in that vicinity all his life. On the day of the accident he left home about twelve forty-five o’clock in the afternoon to return to school. With five other hoys he went west on 96th street four blocks to the tracks of the appellant, intending to cross the tracks at that point and go south on Vincennes road, a street parallel and adjacent on the west to appellant’s right of way. On the right of way were four tracks; the two inside ones were passenger…