Sterling, Dixon & Eastern Electric Railway Co. v. Wise
Appellate Court of Illinois
Action on the case for injury caused by alleged wrongful act. Appeal from the Circuit Court of Lee county; the Hon. Richard S. Earrahd, Judge, presiding. Heard in this court at the April term, 1906.
1Opinion of the Court
Mr. Presiding Justice Dibell
delivered the opinion of the court.
The Sterling, Dixon & Eastern Electric Railway Company operates an interurban railway from Sterling to Dixon by electrical power. It passes by a milk factory, called also Swissville, near Dixon. There are two roads running north and south from the public highway to the factory, and there is a space of eighty-five feet between the roads. The railway crosses these roads near the milk factory, and has a curve of about seven inches in sixty-six feet which ends before the track reaches the east road in going from west to east. On June…
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