Toledo, Wabash & Western Railway Co. v. Williams
Illinois Supreme Court
Appeal from the Circuit Court of Morgan county; the Hon. Cyrus Epler, Judge, presiding. This was an action on the case, brought by Edward H. Williams against The Toledo, Wabash and Western Bailway Company, to recover damages for an alleged wrongful assaulting, beating, etc., of the plaintiff by a servant of the defendant.
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Appeal from the Circuit Court of Morgan county; the Hon. Cyrus Epler, Judge, presiding. This was an action on the case, brought by Edward H. Williams against The Toledo, Wabash and Western Bailway Company, to recover damages for an alleged wrongful assaulting, beating, etc., of the plaintiff by a servant of the defendant. A trial was had, which resulted in a verdict and judgment in favor of plaintiff for $50. On the cross-examination of B. E. Goodrich, one of defendant’s witnesses, the following questions were put to the witness by plaintiff’s counsel : “So your memory is peculiarly shaky on…
1Opinion of the CourtJustice Scholfield
delivered the opinion .of the Court:
Appellee’s declaration contains two counts. The substance of his cause of action, as therein stated, is, that, having purchased of appellant a ticket entitling him to be carried by it from- Quincy to Jacksonville, and while awaiting the departure of appellant’s train, at Quincy, in a room set apart- by it and used for passengers intending to de]iart by its trains, he was assaulted by the defendant’s servant, one E. E. Goodrich, by whom he was there insulted, beaten, etc.
The objection that appellant could not be sued for the injuries complained of, in Morgan…
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