Roberts v. Chicago & Grand Trunk Ry. Co.

This was an action by plaintiff in error against defendant in error for damages on account of injuries alleged to have been occasioned to plaintiff while a passenger on the defendant’s railway, by reason of • defendant’s negligence. July 18, 1894, plaintiff became a passenger on defendant’s railway at Chicago, to be carried thence to New York City. About three o’clock in the morning of July 16th, when about a mile and a half west of Battle Creek, Michigan, the train left the track, and a number of cars, including that in which the plaintiff was riding, were turned over, and the plaintiff was…