Legal Opinion

Mobile & Ohio R. R. v. Healy

Appellate Court of Illinois

Decided March 3, 1902PublishedCited by 6 opinions

Trespass on the Case,—Death from negligent act. Appeal from the City Court of East St. Louis; the Hon. Silas Cook, Judge, presiding.

1Opinion of the Court

Mr. Presiding Justice Worthington

delivered the opinion of the court.

Counsel for appellant urge that the court erred in sustaining the demurrer to the plea to the jurisdiction. The plea alleges in substance:

That appellee, on the 21st day of February, 1899, commenced an action against appellant in the City Court of East St. Louis, for $5,000 damages for the killing of the deceased by appellant; that upon the petition of appellant the case was removed into the United States Circuit Court, for the Southern District of Illinois; that appellee, in said pourt, filed an amended declaration just like…

2Cases cited7 opinions

  1. Randall v. Baltimore & Ohio RailroadSupreme Court of the United States · 1883
  2. Tuttle v. Detroit, Grand Haven & Milwaukee RailwaySupreme Court of the United States · 1887
  3. Chicago & Eastern Illinois Railroad v. DriscollIllinois Supreme Court · 1898
  4. Lovejoy v. Boston & Lowell RailroadMassachusetts Supreme Judicial Court · 1878
  5. Cox v. East Tennessee, Virginia & Georgia RailroadSupreme Court of Georgia · 1882

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3Cited by6 opinions

  1. Clay v. Chicago, Milwaukee & St. Paul Railway Co.Supreme Court of Minnesota · 1908
  2. Dolge v. Northern Pacific Railway Co.Supreme Court of Minnesota · 1909
  3. Mobile & Ohio Railroad v. ValloweAppellate Court of Illinois · 1904
  4. Healy v. Mobile & Ohio RailroadAppellate Court of Illinois · 1909
  5. Mobile & Ohio Railroad v. HealyAppellate Court of Illinois · 1905

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