Carrell v. New York Central Railroad

Mr. Presiding Justice Riess

delivered the opinion of the court.

The defendant, the New York Central Bailroad Company, a corporation, has appealed from a judgment in the sum of $3,500 which was entered against the appellant and in favor of plaintiff appellee, Gflen Carrell, administrator of the estate of Buthe Carrell, deceased, after a trial by jury in the circuit court of Coles county, Illinois. Plaintiff had filed suit for the benefit of the two minor children as next of kin of said intestate deceased, who was struck and killed on August 31, 1940, by the engine of a passenger train proceeding…