Chicago & Northwestern Railway Co. v. Smedley

This was an action on the case to recover damages fo r the killing of four horses, and the injury inflicted upon another, by the engine and cars of appellant, a few feet inside the western limits of the city of Belvidere. The accident occurred on October 18,1887, between the hours of eleven and twelve o’clock in the forenoon. The negligence charged was, first, running the train within the corporate limits at a greater rate of speed than that prescribed by an ordinance of the city; second, failure to give the statutory signals by sounding the whistle or ringing the hell continuously for eighty…