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

Plaintiff commenced this action before a justice of the jieace and obtained judgment in the circuit court where it had been taken by the appeal of defendant, and it is now before us on the appeal of defendant. After charging that defendant was a corporation operating its road through Shoal township in Clinton county, it is averred in the statement as the cause of action that “ such corporation, the defendant, on or about the 30th day of June, 1878, in said township of Shoal, by and through its officers, agents and servants, negligently and carelessly ran its railroad cars and engine against,…