Boss ex rel. Boss v. Illinois Central Railroad
Appellate Court of Illinois
Appeal from the Circuit Court of Effingham county; the Hon. Louis Bebnbeuteb, Judge, presiding. Heard in this court at the October term, 1920.
1Opinion of the CourtJustice Higbee
This case was before this court at the March term, 1919, and is reported in 210 Ill. App., at page 668, to which we refer for a statement concerning the location and surrounding of the place where the injury occurred. The principal question involved, and the only one considered on the former appeal, was whether or not said place was a public crossing of the railroad. This court then held that the evidence introduced, with its reasonable intendments, was sufficient to require the railroad company to show that after an uninterrupted use of this crossing for 40 years; it was so used under some…
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