Chicago, Burlington & Quincy Railroad v. Stumps

This was an action on the case, brought by the appellee, a boy of about the age of seven years, for the recovery of damages for personal injuries sustained by him upon the track of the appellants, upon Brown street, in the city of Chicago, on the seventeenth of April, 1869.

It appears from the testimony that the train of the appellants started from Centre avenue, with some thirteen cars, to take them to the docks of the company, on Twenty-second street, to load with lumber, with the cars ahead of the engine, that is, the engine was pushing the train, and after they turned the curve at Brown…