Chicago & Eastern Illinois R. R. v. Driscoll
Appellate Court of Illinois
Trespass on the Case, for personal injuries. Appeal from the Circuit Court of Cook County; the Hon. Frank Baker, Judge, presiding.
1Opinion of the CourtJustice Waterman
This was an action to recover the pecuniary loss sustained by the next of kin of John Driscoll, a switchman, who was killed in the yard of appellant while working for it.
The deceased belonged to a crew of men engaged in making up out-going freight trains and in breaking up-incoming trains, placing defective cars on stub tracks and distributing them to different points in the yards.
At the termination of one of three stub tracks there was not a butting-post. The night of the accident a car was standing partially on this, one pair of wheels having run off the end and resting on the ground. How…
2Cases cited1 opinion
- Illinois Steel Co. v. SchymanowskiIllinois Supreme Court · 1896
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- Illinois Central R. R. v. McNicholasAppellate Court of Illinois · 1901