Chicago, Burlington & Quincy Railroad v. Mahara

Appellee brought this suit against appellant to recover damages on account of personal injuries sustained when about to take a train as a passenger from Princeton to Kewanee, and obtained a verdict and judgment thereon for §10,000.

It was charged that defendant was guilty of negligence in improperly constructing the passenger platform at Princeton, in not lighting the same at night and in running its passenger train into the station grounds at a high rate of speed, without proper warning of its approach, whereby plaintiff, while exercising proper care on his part, was struck by the train and…