Illinois Central Railroad v. Hopkins

The appellee, who was plaintiff in the Jackson circuit court, recovered a judgment for $1000 against the appellant for an injury which she sustained by stumbling and falling over a “skid,” which, as she alleged, the defendant had negligently suffered to lie and remain across Its depot platform at Makanda, one of its stations in Jack-, son county. The skid was a kind of ladder about eig'ht feet long, made of two pieces of scantling two by four inches, held about eighteen inches apart by iron bands, and was used by the company in loading and unloading barrels and other freight on and from its…