Illinois Central Railroad v. Rothschild
Appellate Court of Illinois
^Action in case for personal injuries. Appeal from the Circuit Court of Mason county; the Hon. Thomas N. Mehan, Judge, presiding. Heard in this court at the November term, 1906.
1Opinion of the CourtJustice Puterbaugh
This is an action in case, hy appellee against appellant, for the recovery of damages for personal injuries alleged to have been received by appellee while a passenger upon one of appellant’s railroad trains. A trial by jury resulted in a verdict and judgment in favor of the plaintiff for $25,000, to reverse which the defendant prosecutes this appeal.
The declaration to which the plea of the general issue was interposed, consists of ten counts, each of which aver, in substance, that the plaintiff, as agent for one Hubley, shipped upon one of defendant’s trains known as No. 64, two carloads of…
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