Bottorff v. Spence

This is an appeal from an order of the Circuit Court of St. Clair County granting summary judgment to defendant, John W. Spence, individually, and d/b/a G-eff Seed and Crain Company, based on an action for personal injuries brought by Lawrence Bottorff, as plaintiff.

In the amended complaint plaintiff alleged in substance that defendant Spence permitted boxcars to be placed and left standing on a spur track on his property with the result that while plaintiff was driving his automobile in an intersection at such point, plaintiff’s automobile collided with a Baltimore and Ohio train, which…