Moudy v. New York, Chicago & St. Louis Railroad

Appellee, Bert Moudy, obtained a judgment for personal injuries against The New York, Chicago and St. Louis Railroad Company in the circuit court of Ford county. On appeal to the Appellate Court for the Third District the judgment was affirmed. We have allowed an appeal to this court. The parties will be hereafter referred to as plaintiff and defendant.

The plaintiff was injured at a railroad crossing October 11, 1939, at about nine o’clock A. M. In his complaint he charges that the defendant permitted high weeds and shrubs to grow on the railroad.right of way, so that the plaintiff, in…