Shaffer v. Chicago, Rock Island & Pacific Railway Co.

The plaintiff is an infant five years of age. Her father, Paul Shaffer, and her mother, Goldie Shaffer, were killed, and the plaintiff herself was injured, on the 10th day of August, 1921, when a Ford automobile in which they were riding was struck at the Fifth Street crossing in the town of Turney, in Clinton County, by a passenger train owned and operated by the defendant Chicago, Rock Island Pacific Railway Company, but running upon tracks leased from defendant Chicago, Burlington Quincy Railroad Company. The collision occurred at about two o'clock in the afternoon. The suit was brought in…