Chicago & Eastern Illinois Railroad v. Driscoll

This is an appeal from a judgment of affirmance by the Appellate Court for the First District of a judgment for $5000, rendered by the circuit court of Cook county against appellant and in favor of appellee, for causing ■ the death of her husband.

The declaration charges that the defendant negligently maintained in its freight yard a certain track without any butt-post or other obstruction at the end thereof, and because of such absence a car had been run off the track onto the ground before the accident, by a crew with which Driscoll, the deceased, had no connection; that the switching crew…