Maxwell v. Chicago & Eastern Illinois Railway Co.

This was a suit in case, in the Circuit Court of Marion county, by appellee against appellant, to recover for a personal injury sustained by appellee while in the service of appellant as a brakeman on one of its freight trains. Trial by jury. Verdict and judgment in favor of appellee for $7,500.

The declaration charged, in effect, that appellant negligently permitted a ladder attached to its caboose to become detached at the upper end and to be and remain in a defective and dangerous condition; that in the discharge of his duties it became necessary for appellee to use said ladder, and that in…