Atchison, Topeka & Santa Fe Railroad v. Elder

This is an appeal from a judgment of the Appellate Court, affirming a judgment of the circuit court of Cook county, in favor of Lester T. Elder, a minor, by Charles Elder, his next friend, against the Atchison, Topeka and Santa Fe Bailroad Company, for $2500. It appears that Charles Elder, and Mary, his wife, with their small boy, about four years old, Lester T. Elder, became passengers on appellee’s road on the 28th day of May, 1892, from Streator to Chicago. The train, when about a half or three-quarters of a mile south of Lemont, struck a cow and calf on the track and was thrown from the…