Butler v. Illinois Traction, Inc.

This suit is brought by appellee, administrator of the estate of Martha Parido, deceased, in behalf of her next of kin, to recover damages for injuries causing death.

Appellee’s intestate, on the evening of August 10, 1927, while riding as a guest in the car of her son, David Parido, in the outskirts of the City of Bloomington, was struck at the intersection of the right of way of appellant’s railway and Stillwell street by one of the electric passenger cars of appellant’s railway, and suffered injuries resulting in her death.

The declaration contained two counts, the first count charging that…