Hoehn v. Chicago, Peoria & St. Louis Railway Co.

This is an action of trespass on the case, by appellant, against appellee, begun in the circuit court of Madison county, to recover for a personal injury alleged to have been received by the wrongful act of one of its servants.

The declaration is of two counts, both charging that plaintiff was wrongfully and forcibly put off of one of defendant’s trains, on which he was riding as a passenger, having paid his fare, etc. The first alleges that the conductor did not use due care to permit plaintiff to alight from the train, but carelessly and willfully ran the train past the station of…