Lavis v. Wisconsin Central Railroad
Appellate Court of Illinois
Memorandum.—Action for personal injuries. Error to the Superior Court of Cook County; the Hon. William G. Ewing, Judge, presiding.
1Opinion of the Court
Mr. Presiding Justice Shepard
delivered the opinion of the Court.
This was a,n action to recover for a personal injury to the plaintiff, who, on the evening of Sunday, October 28 1888, was being carried as a passenger, in a passenger train of the defendant, on its line of railroad, from Chicago to Austin, a suburb of Chicago.
At a point on the railroad, a short distance before the station of Austin is reached, occurs a reverse curve in the road, described by witnesses as a sharp double curve, resembling an elongated letter S.
During the trip, and shortly after the last station before reaching…
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