Pittsburg, Cincinnati, Chicago & St. Louis Ry. Co. v. Banfill

This is an action on the case brought by appellee to recover for a personal injury sustained by her by being struck by a passenger train of appellant at One Hundred and Thirty-seventh street, in the village of Riverdale, Cook county. About twenty minutes past six o’clock on the morning of June 21, 1898, she was walking in a westerly direction along the north sidewalk of said street, going to her place of employment. The railway track of appellant crossed this street in a north and south direction, and the view to the south was obstructed by the depot and by standing cars upon the side-track…