Angell v. Chicago Rock Island & Pacific Railway Co.

The opinion of the court was delivered by

Mason, J.:

Goldie Angelí, nineteen years of age, was killed in a collision between a Rock Island passenger train and a carriage in which she was riding. Her parents recovered a judgment against the railway company and its engineer and fireman, and they appeal.

The accident occurred at.about half past ten o’clock on a moonlight night, in Plains, a city of .the third class, having about 400 inhabitants, at a much traveled crossing — the only one for a distance of half a mile in either direction. The railroad runs approximately east and west. The train came…