Bremer v. Chicago & Eastern Illinois Railway Co.

This action was commenced in the Circuit court of Vermilion county by Lewis K. Pearl, as administrator of the estate of Mary Louise Pearl, deceased, to recover damages for the benefit of the next of Mn of said deceased, against William J. Jackson, as receiver of the Chicago & Eastern Illinois Railroad Company. The right to recover damages for the death of the deceased was based on alleged negligence of the servants of the receiver in the operation of the railroad passenger train, which it is alleged resulted in a collision at a railroad street crossing in the village of Alvin, Illinois. There…