Chicago, Milwaukee & St. Paul Railway Co. v. Faithorn

The defendant in error, the Chicago, Milwaukee & St. Paul Ry. Co., hereinafter called the St. Paul Co., obtained judgment in the Municipal Court of Chicago in the sum of $300 for damages caused by the derailment of its train through the negligence of an employe of the plaintiff in error, John N. Faithorn, as receiver of the Chicago Terminal Transfer R. R. Co.

The contention of the defendant in error is that the suit was on contract, while the plaintiff in error insists that it was purely in tort. So far as the questions of the jurisdiction of the Municipal Court and the procedure therein are…