Union Rolling Mill Co. v. Gillen

The Union Rolling Mill Company is a corporation engaged in the manufacture of iron and steel, and having its furnaces and its mills for rolling the metal in the city of Chicago. It owns a couple of switch engines, for the purpose of delivering on or removing from its premises cars loaded with its material, upon certain spur or switch tracks, which are laid to connect its grounds with the tracks of the Chicago and Alton Railroad Company, which pass through this part of the city. November 21, 1878, Gillen was engaged in hauling stone to the mills of the Union Rolling Mill Company. Having…