Vandenburgh v. Chicago & Northwestern Railroad

In May, 1900, plaintiff in error, then a boy thirteen years of age, in company with three other boys, was standing on a platform adjoining defendant’s railroad tracks at its Norwood Park station, waiting for a freight train to pass. The boys had just come though a small park lying south of the platform, with the intention of crossing the tracks over a walk provided for that purpose. Plaintiff in error stood with his back to the passing train, and two or three feet from it. He testified that “something” hit him in the back, causing him to fall between the platform and the track, and his right…