Legal Opinion

Lake Shore & Michigan Southern Railway Co. v. Johnson

Appellate Court of Illinois

Decided March 10, 1890PublishedCited by 2 opinions

Appeal from the Circuit Court of Cook County; the Hon. Frank Baker, Judge, presiding.

1Opinion of the CourtGary, P. J.

On the evidence the verdict of the jury for the appellee ought not to be disturbed.

Twenty-fifth street in the city of Chicago is an east and west street and the north sidewalk thereon is crossed by eight railway tracks. The most eastern of them going north trends to the east, and enters a coal yard, through gates, and a fence coming south along the west side of the coal yard to the north line of the sidewalk, separates that track from the one next west. The latter, called in the plat in evidence Ho. 3, is the one on which the appellee was hurt. It also, in crossing the sidewalk, runs parallel…

2Cases cited4 opinions

  1. Chicago & Northwestern Railway Co. v. DunleavyIllinois Supreme Court · 1889
  2. Chicago, Burlington & Quincy Railroad v. GregoryIllinois Supreme Court · 1871
  3. Hannibal & St. Joseph Railroad v. MartinIllinois Supreme Court · 1884
  4. Chicago, Burlington & Quincy Railroad v. CarterIllinois Supreme Court · 1858

3Cited by2 opinions

  1. West Chicago Street Railroad v. CoitAppellate Court of Illinois · 1893
  2. United States Rolling Stock Co. v. ChadwickAppellate Court of Illinois · 1890

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