Chicago & Eastern Illinois Railroad v. Huston

This was an action on the case brought by appellee, as administrator, to recover damages for the death of Frank B. Huston, his son, a young man of about seventeen years of age. The son was struck and killed by a locomotive of the Chicago and Eastern Illinois Railroad Company on the evening of May 11, 1895, at or near the Seventy-second street suburban station of the appellant’s road, in Chicago. The locomotive was going north rapidly, without any cars attached, the engine driver evidently intending" to run past this station without stopping. At the station were two parallel tracks running…