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

This was an action brought on behalf of the widow and next of kin of James Fitzsimmons to recover the pecuniary loss by them sustained in consequence of his being struck by an engine and killed at the crossing of Fifty-first street and appellant’s railway.

John Vizard, a witness on behalf of appellee, testified that he and the deceased were working for the Rock Island Company; that he and Fitzsimmons left the shop about six o’clock and walked homeward together; that they went south on the space between the car shops and the railroad track, and went east on Fifty-first street, as far as the two…