Chicago & Alton Railroad v. Redmond

Mr. Presiding Justice Shepard

delivered the opinion op the Court.

The facts in the case are simple, and, except in minor particulars, are not in dispute.

The appellee was, when injured, sixteen years old. His home was in a little village named Hastings, a mile or so south of the village of Lemont, and on the Sunday mornirg in question he had come into Lemont to attend church. After church he went with some companions to or near the corner of Stephens and Canal streets in Lemont, about one hundred feet north of the crossing of Stephens street by the tracks of the appellant. While standing there a…