Legal Opinion
Benson v. Chicago, Rock Island & Pacific Railway Co.
Appellate Court of Illinois
Decided June 7, 1932No. Gen. No. 8,491PublishedCited by 1 opinion
1Opinion of the CourtJustice Wolfe
Leo Benson, appellee, had been an employee of the Chicago, Rock Island & Pacific Railway Company for a period of nine or ten years. All of that time he was employed as a switchman and had the ordinary duties of a switchman to perform. On the 17th day of August, 1929, while employed as such switchman for said railway company he was injured by a train of the defendant. He brought suit in the circuit court of Peoria county alleging that his injuries were caused by the negligence of the defendant company. The case was tried before a jury which returned a verdict in favor of the plaintiff in the…
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