Chicago & Northwestern Railway Co. v. Gillison
Illinois Supreme Court
Appeal from tlie Appellate Court for the First District;—heard in that court on appeal from the Superior Court of Cook county; the Hon. Philip Stein, Judge, presiding.
1Opinion of the CourtJustice Cartwright
The Appellate Court affirmed a judgment against appellant, in favor of appellee, for damages resulting from the loss of his leg while in the service of appellant as a brakeman on its freight train, at its station at Rochelle, Illinois, on the night of May 23, 1894.
More than two years after the injury to plaintiff he filed, by leave of court, an additional count to his declaration, and defendant interposed a plea of the Statute of Limitations to that count. To the plea so filed plaintiff demurred and the demurrer was sustained. The additional count set up no new cause of action, but alleged…
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