Blanchard v. Lake Shore & Michigan Southern Railway Co.

This is an action on the ease, brought, under the act of February 12,1853, “requiring compensation for causing death by wrongful act, neglect or default,” to recover damages for the death of John W. Biordan, alleged to have been caused by the carelessness and improper conduct of the Appellee Company. . The suit was begun in the Superior Court of Cook County in August, 1883, and, after the first trial which resulted in a verdict for the plaintiff, was appealed to the Appellate Court by the Bailroad Company and reversed and remanded. After it was so reversed and remanded, the plaintiff filed an…