Bernier v. Illinois Central Railroad

This was an action on the case brought by defendant in error in the circuit court of Kankakee county tO' recover damages against plaintiff in error for the death of Bernice Bernier, a sixteen-year-old girl. The accident.causing her death occurred about eight o’clock in the evening of October 4, 1917, on the right of way of the Illinois Central Railroad Company in front of its passenger station in the city of Kankakee. The declaration consisted of two original and three additional counts. The first original count charged that plaintiff in error willfully and wantonly ran its train against…