Applegate v. Chicago & North Western Railway Co.

This is an appeal by the defendant Chicago & North Western Railway Co., a corporation, from a judgment of the circuit court of Lake county in favor of plaintiffs in a proceeding for damages for the death of plaintiffs’ intestates who were killed in a collision between the car in which they were riding and one of defendant’s trains.

The primary inquiry presented by this appeal is whether the circuit court erred in denying defendant’s motions for a directed verdict, for judgment notwithstanding the verdict, and for a new trial, and in submitting to the jury the issues of whether defendant was…