Kerr v. Chicago, R. I. & P. Ry. Co.
Appellate Court of Illinois
Trespass on the Case, for personal injuries. Error in the Superior Court of Cook County; the Hon. Arthur H. Chetlain, Judge, presiding.
1Opinion of the Court
Mr. Presiding Justice Windes
delivered the opinion of the court.
Plaintiff in error was injured August 22, 1892, by falling or being thrown from the platform of one of the passenger cars of a suburban train of defendant, while going at the rate of about twenty miles per hour around a curve over the frogs at the intersection or junction of its tracks with those of the Baltimore & Ohio Railway near Beverly station, a suburb of Chicago. He brought suit to recover for his injuries, a trial of which, at the close of all the evidence, resulted in a verdict of not guilty, directed by the court, and…
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