Chicago & Alton Railroad v. Johnson

This was an action against the railroad company to recover damages for a personal injury claimed to have been received in the service of the company, as a freight hrakeman upon a train of freight cars, while passing through a covered bridge, from being struck by the bridge. The plaintiff recovered. On appeal to the Appellate Court for the Third District, the judgment was affirmed, and the defendant appealed to this court.

It is insisted there was error in the exclusion of evidence. Members of plaintiff’s family had testified to the effect that he had not been fit for work since the accident;…