Chicago, Burlington & Quincy R. R. v. Czaja
Appellate Court of Illinois
Trespass on the Case.—Death from negligent act. Appeal from the Circuit Court of Cook County; the Hon. George F. Blanks, Judge, presiding. Heard in this court at the March term, 1895.
1Opinion of the CourtJustice Gary
The appellee is administrator of John Kapitana, who was killed a few minutes before seven o’clock in the morning of January 9, 1892, by the cars of the appellant at Hawthorne Station, a few miles out of Chicago.
A plat is in the record, from which we learn that the railroad tracks there trend to the south in going west; that along the north side of the space, then occupied by four tracks, was a platform about eight feet wide, and about one hundred feet long; that the space occupied by the tracks was about fifty feet wide; that a station house was on the south side of the tracks, and a plank…
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