Opp v. Pryor

At about 9:30 in the evening of July 17, 1915, there was a collision between a freight train of the Wabash Railroad Company, which was being pushed by an engine in a switching operation, and an automobile driven by Ethel Shambaugh, in which the defendant in error, with three other women besides the driver, was taking a ride in the city of Lafayette, Indiana, and the defendant in error being injured, brought her suit in the superior court of Cook county in this State against the plaintiff in error, Edward B. Pryor, receiver of the railroad company, and recovered a judgment for $5000, which was…