Mobile & Ohio Railroad v. Healy
Appellate Court of Illinois
Action on the case for death -caused by alleged wrongful act. Appeal from the City Court of East St. Louis; the Hon. W. J. N. Movers, Judge, presiding. Heard in this court at the August term, 1904.
1Opinion of the Court
Mr. Presiding Justice Higbee
delivered the opinion of the court.
This is a suit in case by Catherine Healy, as administratrix of the estate of William Healy, deceased, against the Mobile and Ohio Bailroad Company. The declaration, which consisted of one count, alleged that said deceased was in the employ of defendant as a switchman in its yards; that defendant negligently allowed two of its railway tracks to be without sufficient space between the same for the reasonably safe and convenient switching and handling of cars thereon and negligently had and allowed the door of a certain car standing…
2Cases cited5 opinions
- Randall v. Baltimore & Ohio RailroadSupreme Court of the United States · 1883
- Chicago & Eastern Illinois Railroad v. DriscollIllinois Supreme Court · 1898
- St. Louis National Stock Yards v. GodfreyAppellate Court of Illinois · 1902
- Mobile & Ohio R. R. v. HealyAppellate Court of Illinois · 1903
- Mobile & Ohio R. R. v. HealyAppellate Court of Illinois · 1902
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- Healy v. Mobile & Ohio RailroadAppellate Court of Illinois · 1910