Illinois Central Railroad v. Larson

In this action on the case by appellee, a minor, who sues by his next friend, against appellant, for personal injuries, he recovered a judgment in the Kankakee circuit court for $2500 damages, and that judgment was affirmed in the Appellate Court for the Second District.

The injuries were received by appellee from the running away of his team of horses, attached to a wagon loaded with slag, while attempting to cross the railroad tracks of appellant at Sixty-seventh street, in the city of Chicago. There were six railway tracks there, and in the center of the street a planked crossing, sixteen…