Wabash Railroad v. Jones

Appellee recovered a judgment for personal injuries caused by appellant’s passenger train when he was walking on the railroad track on appellant’s right of way in front of the train. The Appellate Court affirmed the judgment.

On the morning of December 31, 1891, the plaintiff, who was eight years and ten months old, went with another boy from his home at Riverton to Springfield on one of appellant’s trains and returned to Riverton on the train which injured him. The train was going east, and his father’s house was about twoghundred yards east of the depot where the train stopped. He got off…