Mattocks v. Chicago & Alton Railway Co.
Appellate Court of Illinois
Appeal from the Circuit Court of Peoria county; the Hon. Leslie D. Puterbaugh, Judge, presiding. Heard in this court at the October term, 1913.
1Opinion of the CourtJustice Dibell
On May 21, 1911, John D. Mattocks was in the employ of the Chicago & Alton Railway Company as a brakeman and was head brakeman on a freight train of that company running between Peoria and Dwight. When the train on which he was working reached a station called Nevada, it was to meet and pass a passenger train, and, as the freight train was too long to stand upon the side track at that place, Mattocks was ordered ahead by the engineer to flag the passenger train and to so set the switches so that the passenger train could go in upon, the switch track. When the passenger train had entered the…
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