Illinois Central R. R. v. Ball

Opinion of the Court by

Judge Miller —

Reversing.

These two actions for personal injuries, arose out of the same accident; and, having been consolidated, they were tried together by a single jury. The controlling facts are as follows:

On August 12, 1911, the appellee, Mrs. Lou Ball, and her infant daughter, Beulah Ball, a child about three years of age, traveled upon appellant’s train from Central City to Hillside. In her petition she charged that after the passengers for Central City had alighted from the car, she went aboard of said train for passage to Hillside, and while on the front platform…