Chicago & N. W. Ry. Co. v. Hansen

Hear the crossing of the tracks of the appellant and 48th avenue, in the city of Chicago, is a passenger station of the appellant commonly called Moreland.

That is the only crossing of the tracks between 40th and 52d avenues, a distance of more than a mile.

A witness, resident there, testified that the population of the vicinage was in the neighborhood of 5,000, and that he judged that 3,000 to 3,500 people passed that crossing daily.

July 29, 1894, between 8 and 8:30 p. m., a west-bound passenger train, "on the south or left hand track of the double track, struck the appellee and inflicted upon…