Elgin, Joliet & Eastern Railway Co. v. Raymond

This was an action on the case, brought by Mabel Raymond, an infant,-by her next friend, against the Elgin, Joliet and Eastern Railway Company, to recover damages for a personal injury, received by her at the crossing of the defendant’s railway over Prairie street, in the city of Aurora. The plaintiff was then a child between five and six years of age, and was returning home from school in company with her sister, who was one or two years her senior, and on reaching the crossing in question, her foot became caught in the space between the planking of the crossing and the rail of the…