Chicago & Alton Railway Co. v. Pettit

This is an appeal from a judgment of the Appellate Court for the Third District affirming a judgment of the circuit court of McLean county in favor of the appellee for $7500 against the appellants, as owner and lessee.

The plaintiff was in charge of a grain elevator owned by Claggett Bros., at Lexington, in said county. The defendants at that place, which is on the main line of the Chicago and Alton railway, have double tracks and a side-track. On the morning of the accident two cars, one loaded with oats and one with shelled corn, stood upon the side-track. The car loaded with corn was…