Illinois Central Railroad Co. v. Clark

This is an appeal from a judgment rendered in favor of appellee and against appellant for $4,000, in an action for. alleged negligence, by reason of which appellee was injured. Appellant has eight railway tracks running north and south in the city of Chicago, and crossing what would be part of Seventy-second street, an east and west street if that street were produced across the right of way. The tracks are numbered 1 to 8, number 1 being the extreme- western and number 8 the extreme eastern track. Prior to the fall of 1893 the appellant’s right of way was inclosed by wire fences about seven…