Cleveland, Cincinnati, Chicago & St. Louis Railway Co. v. Ricker

On the loth day of August, 1901, a train of appellant was run over Willie . Ricker, then a baby twenty-two months old, and thereby both of his legs were cut off, one above and the "other below the knee. C. J. Ricker, the plaintiff, is his father and lived at the time of the accident in Urbana, in Champaign county, on West Church street, which runs east and west. Mathews avenue runs north and south and is the first street east of plaintiff’s residence. The lots facing on Church street are each sixty-six feet in width. Plaintiff lived on the second lot west of Mathews avenue. Mathews avenue is…