Hawk v. Chicago, Burlington & Northern Railroad

* Appellant brought this action in the Carroll circuit court to recover damages for personal injury resulting from the alleged negligence of the servant of a connecting line of road, which was to complete appellee’s contract of carriage. The trial resulted in a verdict and judgment for appellant for $6000. On appeal to the Appellate Court for the Second District this judgment was reversed, without remandment, and this appeal is from that judgment.

Upon looking into the record it is apparent that the judgment of the circuit court was predicated upon the finding of the fact that the railroad…