Taylor v. Peoria & Eastern Railway Co.

It is sought by this writ of error to procure the reversal of a judgment for $2,500 rendered against plaintiff in error in an action in case. The first and second counts of the declaration charge substantially that while the plaintiff, in the exercise of due care, was driving across the railway of the defendant upon Morris avenue in the city of Bloomington, about June 30, 1907, a passenger train, negligently operated by the servants of the C. C. C. & St. L. Railway Company, the lessee of the defendant, run upon and against the vehicle in which the plaintiff was riding and that he was thereby…