Lake Shore & Michigan Southern Railway Co. v. Johnson
Appellate Court of Illinois
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…
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