Wuerz v. Southern Railway Co.

Mr. Presiding Justice

Culbertson delivered the opinion of the court.

This is an appeal from two judgments of the circuit court of St. Clair county, in favor of Jennie Wuerz, administratrix of the estate of Edmund Wuerz, deceased, in the sum of $5,000, and in favor of Louis Reuther, in the sum of $600, as against the Southern Railway Company, a corporation. The judgments were based on verdicts rendered in favor of the appellees (hereinafter called plaintiffs), respectively, by reason of the death of Edmund Wuerz and on the basis of damage sustained by plaintiff Louis Reuther through damage to a…