Chicago R. I. & P. Ry. Co. v. Brackman
Appellate Court of Illinois
Trespass on the Case, for personal injuries. Trial in the Circuit Court of La Salle County; the Hon. Charles Blanchard, Judge, presiding. Verdict and judgment for plaintiff. Appeal by defendant.
1Opinion of the Court
Mr. Presiding Justice Dibell
delivered the opinion of the court.
This is an action brought by Frederick Brackman against the Chicago, Rock Island & Pacific Railway Company to recover damages for the crushing of his ankle by the wheels of a freight car of said railway company. Upon issues joined there was a jury trial, and a verdict and a judgment for Brackman for $5,000, from which judgment this appeal is prosecuted.
On March 21, 1895, Brackman, then between seventeen and eighteen years of age, entered an empty stock car in a west-bound freight train of the railway company at Peru, for the…
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