Illinois Central Railroad v. Parks

This was an action, brought by Mrs. Parks, against the Illinois Central Railroad Company, to recover damages for an injury alleged to have been received by the plaintiff through the carelessness of defendant’s servants. Plaintiff was a passenger traveling north in a passenger train of defendant early in the month of September, 1873, and arrived at Wapello in the morning by six o’clock. She was traveling in the sleeping car. When the train arrived at the station of Wapello, in moving up to the station, the engine by which the train was drawn came in collision with another engine upon the track…