Baltimore & Ohio Southwestern Railway Co. v. Keck

This is an action for a personal injury, begun by George Keck, a minor, in the circuit court of St. Clair county, against the Baltimore and Ohio Southwestern Railway Company. A trial by jury resulted in a verdict of $5000 for plaintiff. Upon appeal to the Appellate Court for the Fourth District that judgment was affirmed, and the case is brought here upon further appeal.

The declaration contains six counts, the third charging willful and wanton negligence on the part of defendant, while the others allege, in substance, that the appellee, a boy about fourteen years old, residing with his…