Morgan v. New York Central R. R. Co.

The Appellate Court for the First District affirmed a judgment for $5000 recovered by Charles F. Morgan against the New York Central Railroad Company in the superior court of Cook county for personal injuries received on January 30, 1923, as the result of a collision with an engine of the defendant in the city of South Bend, Indiana. The record has been brought to this court by a writ of certiorari.

The cause was submitted to a jury on a declaration which contained two counts charging the defendant with willful and wanton injury, the facts constituting such willful and wanton injury being that…