Perego v. Lake Shore & Michigan Southern Railway Co.

Error to Hillsdale; Chester, J. Case by Marvin L. Perego, administrator of the estate of Ralph Austin Perego, deceased, against the Lake Shore & Michigan Southern Railway Company for the negligent killing of plaintiff’s intestate. A judgment for plaintiff is reviewed by defendant on writ of error. Plaintiff’s decedent, a boy 8£ years old, was killed while crossing the tracks in the defendant’s yard, opposite the passenger house, being struck by the tender of an engine which was backing on a switch track. The boy lived in Chicago. He and his brother, about 20 years old, had come to visit their…