Appellate Court of Illinois March 16, 1904 (Cleveland, Cincinnati, Chicago & St. Louis Railway Co. v. Alfred)

Mr. Justice Gest

delivered the opinion of the court.

This is an action on the case charging that defendant negligently caused the death of Joseph Alfred. Deceased was fatally injured at the Twenty-fourth street crossing of defendant’s railroad, in Mattoon, between ten and eleven o’clock on the night of September 27, 1901, and died four or five days later.