Keyser v. Chicago & Grand Trunk Railway Co.

The plaintiff in this case is an infant, and was about two years and six months old when he received the injuries complained of. On the 29th day of July, 1880, the defendant ran one of its passenger trains, composed of an engine and four cars, going east over its track through the township of Kimball, in the county of St. Clair. The plaintiff and his parents lived on section ten in Kimball, and about twenty rods south of the railway, on a private way, which was then generally used, and which crossed the railroad. The company’s track was unfenced, and the crossings not supplied with…