Louisville & St. L. Consolidated R. R. Co. v. Gobin

Appellee, who sues by his next friend, was a child five years and seven months old when injured. He lived with his mother, who was-a widow, and supported appellee and her three other children by her labor. She lived in East St. Louis, in a house the rear of which faced Railroad street, a public street of that city, upon and along which appellant’s track was located at the time of the accident, about 2 o’clock p. m. of November 4, 1890.

Appellee was found with one leg lying over the rail and the rest of his body outside the rail of appellant’s road in said street, and a short distance from his…