Chicago & Erie Railroad v. Fox
Indiana Court of Appeals
Erom Porter Circuit Court; Willis C. McMahan, Judge. Action by Edward L. Eox, by his next friend, against the Chicago & Erie Railroad Company. Erom a judgment on a verdict for plaintiff for $5,000, defendant appeals. Affirmed.
1Opinion of the CourtBlack, J.
The appellee, an infant, suing by his next friend, recovered a judgment against the appellant for a personal injury. At the time of the injury, and for many years before, the appellant owned and maintained,- at the city of Hammond, railroad yards, side-tracks, switches, a roundhouse and a turntable, in the southern part of the city. The tracks of the appellant’s railroad ran nearly north and south, and the tracks of the Monon railway company, west of the appellant’s grounds, and running nearly parallel with the appellant’s tracks, were graded up between two and three feet. Douglass street…
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