Chicago, B. & Q. R. R. v. Gunderson
Appellate Court of Illinois
Trespass on the Case.—Death the result of negligence. Appeal from the Circuit Court of La Salle County: the Hon. Charles Blanchard, Judge, presiding. Heard in this court at the December term, 1895.
1Opinion of the Court
Mr. Presiding Justice Lacey
delivered the opinion of the Court.
The appellee, administrator of the estate of George Gunderson, deceased, who, in his lifetime, was her husband, brought suit under the statute against appellant, for damages done her and his and her children, for wrongfully killing the deceased by negligently running over him with its engine and train of cars, at a railroad crossing in the village of Leland, in said county of La Salle, on the 19th day of September, 1893.
The deceased, besides the appellee, his widow, left surviving him his children and heirs at law, Gustavus, Frank,…
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