Larkins v. Terminal Railroad
Appellate Court of Illinois
Action on the case for personal injuries. Appeal from the Circuit Court of St. Clair County; the Hon. R. D. W. Holder, Judge, presiding. Heard in this court at the February term, 1905.
1Opinion of the Court
Mr. Presiding Justice Higbee
delivered the opinion of the court.
On June 28, 1901, appellant Thomas B. Larkins, while in the employ of appellee as foreman of a switching crew, and engaged in the work for which he was employed in appellee’s switching yards in East St. Louis, was knocked down and injured by a moving car. Larkins afterwards commenced suit and obtained judgment against appellee for the injuries which he had sustained. Appellee took an appeal to this court, where the judgment was reversed, with a finding of facts, stating “ that the negligence alleged in the declaration was not the…
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