Boss v. Illinois Central Railroad

At the close of the plaintiff’s evidence the court directed the jury to return a verdict for the defendant, which was accordingly done and judgment rendered against the plaintiff for costs, which the plaintiff1 seeks to set aside by this writ of error.

The declaration charges in the first and second counts that the defendant’s railroad was maintained and operated across a certain public street and highway in the City of Effingham known as Planters avenue, and that while the plaintiff, who was an infant of the age of, to wit, 6 years, was walking along upon said street at the intersection of…