Elgin, Joliet & Eastern Railway Co. v. Lawlor

The Elgin, Joliet and Eastern railroad crosses a public highway known as East Cass street, in the town of Joliet, near the city limits of the city of Joliet. The highway runs somewhat north of east and the railroad slightly west of north, so that they intersect at right angles. At or soon after six o’clock in the evening of September 22, 1904, the appellee, Michael Lawlor, was driving east on said highway with a horse and old open buggy, and a man named Frank Hurley was with him. There were three tracks at that place, and as appellee came toward the crossing an engine of the Michigan Central…