Louisville, New Albany & Chicago Railway Co. v. Head

Bicknell, C. C.

— The appellee was an infant; he brought this suit by his next friend, against the appellant, to recover damages for the appellant’s negligence.

On the day ofjthe Presidential election, in 1876, the appellee and other boys were about the polls in the town of Mitchell ; it was between four and five o’clock in the afternoon; at that place the appellant’s road, running north and south, crosses Main street in the town of Mitchell, a street eighty feet wide *118running east and west. A switch, running southeasterly to a freight house, also crosses Main street close to the main track of…