Ward v. Chicago & N. W. Ry. Co.

Mr. Presiding Justice Cartwright

delivered the opinion op the Court.

Appellant sued appellee and filed his declaration of the cause of action, consisting of eleven counts, in each of which he alleged that he was a passenger on a train of appellee to be carried from Chicago to its station at DeKalb, Illinois, and that he Avas injured by falling from the platform of the train when near the station of DeKalb, but before the station Avas reached or a stop made for the purpose of alloAving passengers to alight. The declaration Avas demurred to generally and specially, and the demurrer was sustained.…