Chicago & Eastern Illinois Railroad v. Reilly

Mr. Chiee Justice Ricks

delivered the opinion of the court:

This is an appeal from a judgment of the Appellate Court affirming a judgment of the circuit court of Cook county for $6500 in favor of appellee, on account of personal injuries.

Appellee "claimed to have been struck and injured by a piece of timber projecting from a car in appellant’s train. The accident happened at the intersection of appellant’s tracks with Dearborn street, near One Hundred and Fifteenth street, in Chicago, Illinois, on October 30, 1897,-at about eight o’clock P. M. At this point the main tracks of appellant, two in…