Chicago & Alton Railway Co. v. Noble

This was an action in case by appellee against appellant to recover for personal injuries sustained by appellee while alighting from appellant’s passenger train at Wilmington, in Will county. There was a verdict and judgment in favor of appellee for $500.

The declaration consists of seven counts, and alleges that appellee was a passenger for reward, in the exercise of ordinary care for her safety on the train of appellant, and, in several ways, that appellant was negligent in not furnishing a foot stool to assist appellee in alighting; that the lower step of the coach was such a distance from…