Cleveland, Cincinnati, Chicago & St. Louis Railway Co. v. Keenan

This is an action on the case, brought by the appellee, as administrator, against the appellants, in the circuit court of McLean county, to recover damages for the wrongful killing of William P. Kerr, Ms intestate, by a passenger train at a street crossing in Leroy, in said county. ' The negligence charged in the declaration was a failure to ring a bell or sound a whistle, running at an unlawful and prohibited rate of speed, and a failure to approach the crossing with proper care and at a reasonable rate of speed, the view of the approaching train being obstructed. The jury returned a verdict…