Appellate Court of Illinois March 7, 1896 (Pierce v. Gray)

Mr. Justice Scofield

delivered the opinion of the Court.

On March 1, 1895, appellee rode from East St. Louis to Glen Carbon on one of the passenger trains of the Toledo, St. Louis and Kansas City Railroad Company, and reached her destination after nightfall. There were four cars in the train, of which the chair-car was the third from the engine.