Chicago & Eastern Illinois Railroad v. Donworth

The appellee, at about the hour of 8:15 A. M., June 22, 1897, at a point in the city of Chicago where Twenty-sixth street, which runs east and west, crosses eight railroad tracks running north and south, while attempting to cross one of the said tracks (that of the Chicago am]. Western Indiana railroad) was struck by an engine drawing a south-bound passenger train operated by the Chicago and Eastern Illinois Railroad Company and received injuries to his person, for which, in an action against the appellant companies brought in the superior court of Cook county, he was, on a hearing before the…