White v. Chicago, Peoria & St. Louis Railroad
Appellate Court of Illinois
Error to the Circuit Court of Peoria county; the Hon. John M. Niehaus, Judge, presiding. Certiorari denied by Supreme Court (making opinion final).
1Opinion of the Court
Mr. Presiding Justice Carnes
delivered the opinion of the court.
A. H. White, the defendant in error, was injured in the night of November 11, 1912, by stepping off the unlighted depot platform of the Chicago, Peoria & St. Louis Railway Company at Forrest City, Illinois, and falling on the ground, while waiting as a passenger to take a train. The company was at that time in the control of receivers appointed by the District Court of the United States for the Southern District of Illinois, Southern Division, in a foreclosure suit there pending. Afterwards, and before this suit was begun, there…
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