Illinois Central Rail Road v. Neer
Appellate Court of Illinois
Appeal from the Circuit Court of Champaign County; the Hon. C. B. Smith, Judge, presiding.
1Opinion of the Court
Pleasants, J..
The declaration in this case sets forth that James A. Neer, a locomotive engineer in the employ of the defendant company, on the 22d of November, 1886, at 10:30 o’clock a. M.,Jeft Centraba with a train which was to be moved and run, not according to any time-table, but under special directions from the. train-master, and therefore called a wild train, composed of nineteen cars of cattle and three of dead freight, under an order to make the run to Champaign City in seven and a half hours; that he followed a regular freight train, which, by its time card, was to leave the same…
2Cases cited1 opinion
- Illinois Central Railroad v. NeerAppellate Court of Illinois · 1887
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