Streeter v. Humrichouse

An action on the case was instituted by appellee against, appellant in the circuit court of Kankakee county to recover pecuniary damages alleged to have been sustained by reason of the death of appellee’s intestate in a collision between appellant’s automobile and a switch engine on which appellee’s intestate was riding.

State highway 17 runs in an easterly and westerly direction and, in the City of Kankakee, is known as Court Street. The. Cleveland, Cincinnati, Chicago & St. Louis Railway Company’s main track and a parallel switch track cross Court Street, run in a northwesterly and…