Chicago, Burlington & Quincy Railroad v. Wolfe

In 1894 John F. Wolfe was injured while a passenger on one of the trains of the Chicago, Burlington & Quincy Railroad Company, and for such injury recovered judgment against defendant under section 3, article 1, chapter 72, Compiled Statutes, from which said company brings error to this court.-

The brief of defendant is devoted almost wholly to a discussion of the validity of this statute. All arguments presented, save one, have been repeatedly passed upon by this court adversely to the contention of defendant, and we are convinced that the rulings mentioned are right. To the one new point we…