Swanson v. Moline, Rock Island & Eastern Traction Co.
Appellate Court of Illinois
Appeal from the City Court of Moline; the Hon. G. O. Dietz, Judge, presiding. Heard in this court at the October term, 1916.
1Opinion of the CourtJustice Dibell
Oscar E. Swanson and Evan S. Evans were walking over a trestle owned by one of appellants and operated by the other for an interurban railway over an arm of the Mississippi River from the Illinois shore to Campbell’s Island, where there was an amusement park and an inn and where a dance was in progress, after nine o’clock p. m. of May 31, 1915, when an interurban car overtook them. Evans succeeded in clinging to a timber on the lower side. Swanson apparently fell down and was struck by the fender and either was knocked off or jumped off or fell off and was drowned. The administrator of his…
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