Robison v. Chicago & Eastern Illinois Railway Co.

This is an appeal from a judgment for $20,000 obtained by the administrators of the estate of D. M. Robison, deceased, against the Chicago and Eastern Illinois Railway Company on account of the death of Mr. Robison who, along with the fireman and head brakeman, was' killed in an explosion of the boiler of one of said railway company’s freight locomotives then in his charge.

The action was brought under the Federal Employers’ Liability and Boiler Inspection Acts. It was alleged in the petition that the “explosion occurred as a direct and proximate result of the failure on the part of the…