Chicago & Eastern Illinois Railroad v. Hines

The appellee, Robert Hines, recovered a judgment in the superior court of Cook county against the appellant railroad company for a personal injury. Appellant, at the time of the injury, was running a passenger train southward from Chicago on its track and right of way, which crossed One Hundred and Third street at right angles. Hines was at the time a passenger on a street car of the Calumet Electric Street Railway Company, which car was running east on its track on One Hundred and -Third street, and when it had reached and was upon the crossing of appellant’s railroad the passenger train…