Hancock v. Illinois Central R. Co.

The appellant sued the appellee in the court below for the death of his mother, who was struck and killed by one of the appellee’s trains. At the close of the evidence the court below directed the jury to return a verdict for the appellee, and there was a judgment accordingly.

The essential facts disclosed by the evidence are, in substance, as follows. The appellee’s Railroad runs north and south through the village of Coldwater, and is crossed nine hundred fifty-five feet south of the south end of its station house by a state highway, designated “within the corporate limits of Coldwater as…