AMER. NAT. BK. & TRUST v. Penn. RR Co.

40 Ill.2d 186 (1968)

238 N.E.2d 385

AMERICAN NATIONAL BANK AND TRUST COMPANY, Guardian, Appellee,

v.

THE PENNSYLVANIA RAILROAD COMPANY et al., Appellants.

No. 40904.

Supreme Court of Illinois.

Opinion filed May 29, 1968.

Rehearing denied July 2, 1968.

CORNELIUS P. CALLAHAN, of Chicago, for appellants.

LOUIS G. DAVIDSON, of Chicago, for appellee.

Judgment affirmed.

In June of 1959, Henry Lee Edwards, then 13 years of age, suffered a traumatic amputation of both legs when he stepped off a train which was operated by the Chicago, Milwaukee, St. Paul and Pacific Railroad Company (the Milwaukee), on the…