Citations
- 56 Ill. 344
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Mr. Justice Walker
delivered the opinion of the Court:
This was an action brought by appellee to recover a penalty against appellants for the failure to ring a bell or sound a whistle at the crossing of a highway with their engine and trains. The suit was instituted under the one hundred and thirty-eighth section of the railroad law of the 5th of November, 1849. On the trial in the court below, the jury found a verdict for $1,150, for various breaches of the statute, upon which a judgment was rendered.
It is first urged, that the court below erred in refusing to allow the peremptory challenges of jurors made by appellants. Four of the jurors who tried the ease were asked on their vow