Chicago, Milwaukee & St. Paul Ry. Co. v. Mason

On the morning of Sunday, Hovember 7, A. D. 1886, -Eva Mason, a child between six and seven years old, was run over by a train of cars and killed upon the track of appellant, in the village of Thompson, in Carroll County.

At the time of the accident Eva was on her way to Sunday school in company with her elder sister, who was about eleven years of age. Appellant’s track runs north and south through the village, and parallel with it, and about 160 feet west of it is the track of the C. B. & N. R. R., which runs through one of the fields of appellee, the father and administrator of the child Eva.