REILLY v. CHICAGO & N. W. RY. CO.

No. 10601.

201 F.2d 473 (1953)

REILLY v. CHICAGO & N. W. RY. CO. et al.

United States Court of Appeals, Seventh Circuit.

Rehearing Denied February 24, 1953.


Attorney(s) appearing for the Case

William C. Wines and Edward J. Bradley and Edward S. Coath, Chicago, Ill., for appellant.

Lowell Hastings, Drennan J. Slater, Gerald M. Chapman, Erich W. Lademann, John W. Costello, Edward Wolfe, all of Chicago, Ill., for appellees.

Before MAJOR, Chief Judge, and LINDLEY and SWAIM, Circuit Judges.


SWAIM, Circuit Judge.

This is an appeal from a judgment entered for the two defendant railroad companies notwithstanding the verdict of the jury finding both defendants guilty of negligence and awarding damages for the plaintiff in the amount of $200,000.00.

The accident, out of which this action for personal injuries arose, occurred October 11, 1945, when the plaintiff, James M. Reilly, Jr., a boy then five and one-half years old, with two older boys, climbed...

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