Clarke v. Illinois Cent. R.

KING, Circuit Judge.

Plaintiff in error, plaintiff in the court below, brought suit against the Illinois Central Railroad Company, hereinafter styled defendant, to recover for personal injuries.alleged to have been inflicted by said defendant.

George Clarke was a boy about 13 years of age, a member of a Boy Scout troop, and on the night when injured was on his way to a meeting of the troop, who were going to a lecture. While playing with a companion near where South Gallatin street crosses the defendant’s railroad tracks in the city of Jackson, Miss., he heard a train of defendant approaching…