North Chicago Rolling Mill Co. v. Morrissey

The appellee brought this action to the June term, 1881, of the Superior Court of Cook county, to recover damages consequent upon the death of her husband through alleged negligence on the part of the appellant. The charge in the declaration is, substantially, that the defendant improperly, unskillfullv and negligently constructed a certain wooden wall, in dangerous and close proximity to a certain railroad track, and that the deceased, whilst in the employ of the defendant as a switchman, riding with due care upon a certain locomotive, was struck by said wall, and thereby thrown to the…