Healy v. New York Central Railroad

Marion Healy filed a suit in the circuit court of Bureau county, seeking damages for injuries resulting to herself and her automobile when her car collided with a freight train of the defendant, the New York Central Railroad Company, a corporation. At the time of the accident, the train was standing on a switch track of the defendant at a grade crossing of the Illinois State Highway route 89, known as Main street, in the village of Ladd, Illinois. The collision occurred about five o’clock in the morning of January 1, 1942. The railroad tracks at the crossing in question extended in an…