Snedden v. Illinois Central Railroad

Appellee, William Snedden, recovered a judgment for $25,000 in the circuit court of LaSalle county against appellant, Illinois Central Railroad Company, for the loss of his right arm, and an appeal has been prosecuted to this court.

The first errors urged are that the court at the close of the evidence improperly refused to direct a verdict for appellant, and that the verdict is contrary to the evidence. The accident happened on July 12, 1912, at the plant of the Chicago Portland Cement Company, now the Lehigh Cement Company, in Ogles-by, Illinois, which is three and one-half miles south of…