Peoria & Pekin Union Railway Co. v. Herman

This was an action in case by the appellee against appellant to recover damages accruing to her from the killing of her husband, Ephraim Herman, deceased, by running over him with a car, called a tender, attached to a locomotive engine and being backed over a public crossing in the city of Peoria, where at the same time deceased was crossing in front of the tender. This crossing was at a place being the extension of Junction street. This street is fifty feet wide where it ends and the crossing appears to be a continuance of it with planks eighteen feet long in the center between the rails.…