Lake Shore & M. S. Ry. Co. v. Rohlfs
Appellate Court of Illinois
Memorandum.—Action for damages resulting by reason of a death from negligent acts. Appeal from the Circuit Court of Cook County; the Hon. Thomas G. Windes, Judge, presiding. Heard in this court at the October term, 1893.
1Opinion of the CourtJustice Shepard
Frederick Bohlfs was killed March 4,1890, while at work for appellant in its Forty-third street yards, Chicago. He was a car repairer, and was at work making steam pipe connections' between two baggage cars standing upon a side track used for making up passenger trains. It was while he Avas at work down between the two baggage cars that he was killed by the two cars being suddenly forced together by another car being “ kicked ” against them, at a moment Avhen his head was between their coupling castings.
The appellee is his widow and administratrix.
From a judgment for §5,000 recovered in her…
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