Niegos v. Indiana Harbor Belt Railroad

Appellant brought this action against appellees for damages because of personal injuries received when he was run over by a train operated by appellees.

The facts as disclosed by the record may be summarized as follows: In the City of East Chicago there is a public park known as Koscioszko Park. Along the south boundary of said park appellees owned and operated two railroad tracks. These tracks, as they pass said park, are bounded on the south by a tract of two or three acres of waste land which is bounded on the south by the Calumet River. For many years prior to June 3,1942, children of the…