Charles Reid, a Minor, by Lindell Reid, His Father and Next Friend v. Norfolk & Western Railway Company, a Virginia Company

COFFEY, Circuit Judge.

In this diversity suit, 15-year-old plaintiff-appellant Charles Reid (“Reid”), through his father, sued the defendant-appellee, Norfolk and Western Railway Company (“N & W”) alleging that Reid sustained personal injuries as a result of the conduct of N & W and its agents, when he was struck by a freight train owned by N & W while trespassing on train tracks owned by N & W. The district court entered summary judgment in favor of N & W, finding that under Illinois law, Reid was not a “permissive user” of the tracks, and thus N & W did not owe Reid a duty of “ordinary…