Citations
- 49 Ill. App. 17
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Opinion oe the Court,
Pleasants, P. J.
Appellee recovered judgment below on a verdict for $1,000 damages for the loss of his right foot, charged to have been caused by the negligence of appellee.
He was a single man, thirty-one years of age, residing six miles west of the city of Charleston. He went to the city on the morning of December 10, 1890, and spent the day there. About nine o’clock in the evening, on his way to take the train for home, while passing over the track of appellant on the sidewalk of Railroad street, an engine, coming from the shops, in charge of an assistant hostler as engineer and a man who worked about the shops as fireman, ran upon him and crushed his foot, which had to be amputated. He was going by the usual route from the public square to the depot. The street runs east and west, parallel with the track of the L