Elgin, Joliet & Eastern Railway Co. v. Lawlor

Mr. Presiding Justice Dibell

delivered the opinion of the court.

The Elgin, Joliet & Eastern Bailway and Cass street, in the suburbs of the city of Joliet, cross each other. At that crossing a person driving east on the highway is going in a direction slightly north of east, and a train coming from the south on the railroad is going slightly west of north, and they there cross nearly at right angles. In the early evening of September 22, 1904, Michael Lawlor, appellee herein, and his friend, Frank Hurley, were driving east on the south side of Cass street and crossing the three tracks of the…