Richards v. Illinois Central Railroad

This was an action on the case brought by appellee against appellant on account of personal injuries alleged to have been sustained by appellee while a passenger on one of appellant’s trains from Anna to Ullin, Illinois, on July 4, 1914. The declaration is in three counts. The first count charges that while appellee was a passenger, and while attempting to alight from the train at Ullin, the train was negligently, suddenly and violently started and moved, throwing’ appellee to the ground, resulting in appellee being greatly bruised, hurt and crippled; that the womb of appellee was thereby…