Chicago & Alton Railroad v. Vipond
Illinois Supreme Court
Appeal from the Appellate Court for the Second District ;—heard in that court on appeal from the Circuit Court of LaSalle county; the Hon. H. M. Trimble, Judge, presiding:
1Opinion of the CourtJustice Cartwright
The tracks of the Chicago and Alton Railroad Company and of the Indiana, Illinois and Iowa Railroad Company, called the “Three I,” run parallel with each other in the city of Streator and about seventy-five feet apart. Said tracks are crossed by the double tracks of the Atchison, Topeka and Santa Fe Railroad Company nearly at right angles. There is a semaphore at the crossing of the Chicago and Alton and another at the crossing of. the Three I, by which the use of the crossings is regulated. At night there are two lamps in each semaphore, and both semaphores are operated by the same lever, by…
2Cases cited2 opinions
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