Voorhees v. Chicago & Alton Railroad

Mr. Presiding Justice Graves

delivered' the opinion of the court.

Appellant’s right of way and tracks cross the public highway at a point about 2 miles south and east of Jerseyville at an acute angle; the railroad right of way and tracks run southeasterly and northwesterly and the public highway runs east and west. The railroad track was on a down grade a.t the rate of 15 feet fall to 3,000 feet run as it approached this crossing from the southeast. On the south side of the highway for about an eighth of a mile east of the right of way of plaintiff in error there was a large hedge that at the…