Chicago & E. I. R. R. v. Huston
Appellate Court of Illinois
Trespass on the Case, for personal injuries. Appeal from the Superior Court of Cook Count)-; the Hon. Marcus Kavanagh. Judge, presiding. Heard in the Branch Appellate Court at the March term, 1900. Rehearing denied.
1Opinion of the Court
Mr. Presiding J ustioe Shepard
delivered the opinion of the court.
Appellee’s intestate was struck and killed by a locomotive of the appellant, Chicago & Eastern Illinois Railroad Company, on the evening of May 11, 1895, at or near the Seventy-second street suburban station of said company, in Chicago, and this appeal questions the judgment for §3,600 recovered by appellee in his suit for damages occasioned by the death.
The locomotive was “ running light ” — that is, without coaches attached — it being on its return northward to the roundhouse at Thirty-third street, from a more remote station…
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