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

On July n, 1910, about 11:5o P. M., plaintiff in error, at Rock Island Junction, obtained permission of the Pennsylvania Company to deliver over its tracks to Roby, Indiana, a distance of a little more than two miles, two cars of grain, which delivery it attempted to make by twelve o’clock that night to save demurrage charges on the two cars. The train of plaintiff in error consisted of a locomotive (No. 113) and said two cars, and was operated to Roby through a part of South • Chicago on the south or east-bound track and back to Rock Island Junction on the north or west-bound track of the…