Callaway v. Spurgeon
Appellate Court of Illinois
Trespass on the Case.—Death from negligent act. Appeal from the Circuit Court of Coles County; the Hon. Ferdinand Bookwalter, Judge, presiding. Heard in this court at the May term, 1895.
1Opinion of the CourtJustice Boggs
On the 3d day of June, 1893, Goldie M. Spurgeon, a girl aged nine years and five months, while walking along the track of the Toledo, St. Louis and" Kansas City Railroad upon a bridge across Kickapoo creek, in Coles county, Illinois, was run upon, struck, and instantly killed by an engine attached to and drawing a passenger train. She was at the time in company with one George Walters, her uncle, a man of mature age, both of whom were walking together and endeavoring to make their way across the bridge. They were trespassers on the track of the appellant’s road, and both were struck at same…
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