Mix v. Illinois Central Railroad

On the 2d day of October, 1884, the appellant, James Mix, commenced an action of debt, in the circuit court of Ford county, against the Illinois Central Bailroad Company, to recover divers penalties alleged to have been incurred by the defendant at various times in crossing the Lake Erie and Western railway at the town of Paxton, in said county, without first bringing its trains to a full stop, as required by the act of March 31,1874, entitled “An act in relation to fencing and operating railroads.” By the 12th section of that act all trains upon any railroad crossing or intersecting another…