Pittsburg, C., C. & St. L. Ry. Co. v. Story
Appellate Court of Illinois
Trespass on the Case, for personal injuries. Appeal from the Superior Court of Cook County; the Hon. James Goggin, Judge, presiding. Heard in this court at the March term, 1896.
1Opinion of the CourtJustice Shepard
delivered' the opieioe of the Court.
The appellee was a passenger, bound from Chicago to New York, on one of the appellant’s passenger trains.
Hear a station named Tuscarawas, Ohio, the train in which appellee was so traveling collided with a west bound mail train on the same road, and the claimed injuries suffered by appellee were thereby incurred.
The trial in the Superior Court resulted in a verdict for $12,000, from which appellee remitted the sum of $3,000, and thereupon a judgment for $9,000 in favor of appellee was entered, and this appeal is from such judgment.
The appellee was about…
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- Earle v. EarleAppellate Court of Illinois · 1895
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