Howard v. Illinois Central Railroad

Opinion of the Court by

Chief Justice Carroll

ffirming.

The appellant, Mahaley Howard, a girl nine years old, when walking on the track of the appellee railroad company, was struck and injured by the engine of a passing train. To recover damages for the injuries so sustained she brought this suit by her next friend and on a trial of the ease after the evidence for the plaintiff had been introduced the trial court directed the jury to return a verdict for the railroad company and the plaintiff prosecutes this appeal.

The court was influenced to take the case from the jury because it was of the…