Curran v. Chicago & Western Indiana Railroad
Appellate Court of Illinois
Appeal from the Circuit Court of Cook county; the Hon. Richard S. Tuthill, Judge, presiding. Heard in the Branch Appellate Court at the October term, 1917.
1Opinion of the CourtJustice Matchett
Appellants, defendants below, appeal from a judgment entered upon the verdict of a jury, in an action on the case for personal injuries. The cause was submitted to the jury upon pleas of not guilty as to the first and second counts of the declaration, which charged defendants with negligence in that they failed to build or maintain fences alongside their tracks in the City of Chicago as required by certain ordinances.
The declaration set up an ordinance of March 26, 1890, which purported to fix the speed at which railroads might operate their trains within the city. The third section provided:
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