Chicago & Alton Railroad v. Randolph

This action was brought by appellee, in the Logan circuit court, against appellants, to recover for damages received by him while leaving appellants’ train of cars, about the twenty-first of September, 1868. It appears that, on the evening of the day the injury was received, appellee procured a ticket at Lincoln for the station at Atlanta, and got upon a freight train while it was still in motion, the employees not intending to stop at the station at Atlanta. There was another passenger got on the train at the same time, who was going to the same place. The train was a through stock and…