Boyd v. Chicago & Northwestern Railway Co.

B. W. Goens was a sub-contractor under George C. Smith for grading and preparing a part of the road-bed for a railroad track. - Goens hired John Lyons as a laborer, and Lyons was injured by the falling of clay from the face of a bank in widening a cut, and died from his injuries. Plaintiff in error, as administrator of the estate of Lyons, sued Goens and Smith and the defendants in error, the Chicago and Northwestern Railway Company and the Peoria and Northwestern Railway Company, to recover damages, alleging that the death of Lyons was caused by negligence in respect to the bank and in the…