Riverton Coal Co. v. Shepherd and Same v. Shepherd

This appeal is from a judgment of the Appellate Court for the Third District affirming two judgments rendered in the circuit court of Sangamon county, one in favor of the appellee John E. Shepherd for $5000, and another in favor of his son, Charles L. Shepherd, for $1500, both against the appellant, the Riverton Coal Company. The suits were for personal injuries growing out of the same accident and are similar in all respects. By agreement of parties they were tried in the circuit court as one case, and are submitted here, as they were in the Appellate Court, upon one set of abstracts, briefs…