Cox v. Illinois Central Railroad

Opinion op the Court by

Judge Carroll

Affirming.

In July, 1909, the appellant, Mrs. Cox, while driving in a buggy on a public highway, discovered a freight train standing on the crossing over which she desired to pass. Upon making this discovery, she stopped her horse some three hundred feet from the railroad crossing, and, getting out of the buggy, walked down to the track for the purpose of getting the men in charge of the train to “cut it” or move it off the crossing, so she could go on her way. When she reached the train, she discovered on the other side of the cars a person, not connected…