Colby v. Chicago Junction Railway Co.
Appellate Court of Illinois
Error to the Superior Court of Cook county; the Hon. Joseph B. David, Judge, presiding. Heard in this court at the October term, 1919.
1Opinion of the Court
Mr. Presiding Justice McSurely
delivered the opinion of the court.
Defendant seels by. this writ of error to have reversed a judgment against it for $2,500, in an action brought for the death of Wladyslaw Nowakowski, a minor, by the alleged wrongful act of the defendant in maintaining an attractive nuisance.
Plaintiff filed an amended declaration in one count charging that on May 20, 1914, the defendant was a railroad corporation operating a certain railroad yard for storing railroad cars and possessing certain freight cars upon certain tracks near 23rd and Fox streets in Chicago; that the yard…
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