Legal Opinion

Pennsylvania Co. v. McCaffrey

Appellate Court of Illinois

Decided February 9, 1897Published

Trespass on the Case, for personal injuries. Appeal from the Circuit Court of Cook County; the Hon. Edmund Burke, Judge, presiding.

1Opinion of the CourtJustice Gary

The appellee sued the appellant for injuries by him received as he alighted from a north-bound train of the appellant and was struck by a locomotive going south on an adjacent track. One of the questions on the trial was whether the train from which he alighted had come to a stop before he left it.

Another was whether he was negligent in leaving the train on the west side of it, where there were other tracks, when he might have left it on the east side of it, where there were no other tracks. The brief of the appellant concedes that the appellee alighted at Twenty-second street, and the…

2Cases cited4 opinions

  1. Wald v. Pittsburg, Cincinnati, Chicago & St. Louis R. R. Co.Illinois Supreme Court · 1896
  2. Chicago & Northwestern Railway Co. v. TrayesAppellate Court of Illinois · 1889
  3. Lake Shore & Michigan Southern Railway Co. v. WardAppellate Court of Illinois · 1890
  4. Pennsylvania Co. v. KeaneAppellate Court of Illinois · 1891

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