Kobbe v. Chicago & North Western Railway Co.

Action to recover for wanton injury to Mathew Swingley, a minor. Defendant appeals from the judgment.

Defendant is a railway incorporated under the laws of Illinois-. Its railway system extends many miles into this state as well as into Illinois and other states. On February 9, 1925, Mathew Swingley, then a husky youth of 20 years -whose home was in Savanna:, Illinois, rode the “blind baggage” to Chicago. He spent the day there, and late in the evening took shelter in a box car in defendant’s yard. About three in the morning he was discovered and escorted out of the railroad yard by…